Klarinet Archive - Posting 000956.txt from 2000/12

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] David Hattner: where is your sense of humor?
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:02:16 -0500

--- Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net> wrote:

> David, I am soon going to be convinced that you have no sense of humor.
> The remark made was that the person thought that Wlach had "croaked."
> So I said, "Watch your language. He many have squeaked, but he never
> croaked!" See? Squeak. Croak.
>
> But I did not know that Wlach was a Nazi. I should tell you that I
> wrote a story that was published and that dealt with the President of
> the Vienna Phil. (and also first bassoon) who was a righteous man and
> who quit his position rather than tolerate the political abuses that
> were going on with that orchestra at that time. Except for his decency,
> the Vienna Phil. did contain a great many Nazis, but I did not know that
> Wlach was one of them. Actually the story was published in two
> magazines, one of them was the double reed journal, and I gave them the
> story without fee because I was so impressed with the courage of the man
> in question. His name was Hugo Burghauser and he eventually became 1st
> bassoon in Toronto and, later, 1st in the NBC and 2nd in the Met. Opera
> orchestra. I met him one night when I was playing Elektra at the Met in
> the early 1960s and he came to watch the performance by sitting in the
> pit. He was retired by that time.
>
> Got it? Squeak. Croak. It is supposed to have been hilariously funny.

Well, I think you overestimate the quality of your humor but, still, it
was funny. The fact that David decided to take a more serious interpret-
ation sparked a release of some information that would not have been re-
vealed otherwise. What he wrote and what you wrote was absolutely fas-
cinating, so even though your joke was foiled, I'm glad of it in this
case.

-- Neil

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