Klarinet Archive - Posting 000666.txt from 2001/05

From: Lacy Schroeder <LacyS@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mahler 1
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 13:46:10 -0400

I see now. Sorry about that. I know how German conductors are; I worked with
one for almost two months a couple summers ago at an opera festival in which
I was playing 2nd clarinet in the orchestra. He was the orchestra's head
conductor, and in one particular instance at a dress rehearsal, he stopped
the players and said to the diva on stage (all the while with a thick
accent), "You look like a cheeseburger waiting for McDonald's!" Of course
his syntax was all off, but he got many strange looks from everybody in
earshot. There was also this time when a violin player was late for a sitz
rehearsal, and as she was coming in, he yelled at her, "Harley!! Get your
*ss in the chair!!" (Imagine Arnold Schwartzenegger saying these things and
then try to keep a straight face.)

Maybe this was the same reason for Mahler's demise?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Leeson [mailto:leeson0@-----.net]
> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 12:37 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Mahler 1
>
>
> You have your metaphors cross. My conversation with Mahler was in
> English which I insisted he speak in order understand why he got fired
> from the NY Philharmonic. Now I know. His accent was so strange that
> they couldn't understand him.
>
> Now anyone who wants to have a conversation with Shostakovich, be my
> guest, but I don't talk to anyone who would write the b.c.
> part that he
> wrote for the 2nd movement of the violin concerto. At last count, it
> was 7,532 notes in 10 seconds and growing.
>
> DNL
>
> Lacy Schroeder wrote:
> >
> > Just curious, Dan, did you have your discussion in German
> or English? :) I
> > don't think Shostakovich spoke English, tak eto ochen'
> horosho shto ya umeio
> > kak govorit' po-russky (darn, it's hard to write Russian
> without Cyrillic
> > fonts!!). Just a silly thought! :^P
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Lacy Schroeder [mailto:LacyS@-----.org]
> > > Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 10:50 AM
> > > To: 'klarinet@-----.org'
> > > Subject: RE: [kl] Mahler 1
> > >
> > >
> > > ROTFLMAO!!!! I'd like to have a similar discussion with
> > > Shostakovich for
> > > writing some really awful technical passages...plus that one
> > > in the 1st
> > > Cello Concerto. All that tongueing in the 1st movement was
> > > awful. Makes you
> > > wonder if any of them has even *touched* a clarinet before.
> > >
> > > Lacy S.
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Daniel Leeson [mailto:leeson0@-----.net]
> > > > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 8:04 PM
> > > > To: klarinet@-----.org
> > > > Subject: Re: [kl] Mahler 1
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Well the fact is that I went to a medium and had a personal
> > > discussion
> > > > with Mahler. The problem was that he was so full of guilt
> > > > that he could
> > > > not really come to any conclusion on anything. He simply kept
> > > > apolgizing for all the anguish through which he had put me.
> > > >
> > > > I told him that he had not allowed enough time to switch to
> > > the E-flat
> > > > clarinet part from the b.c. and he asked if thought that
> > > > perhaps a tenor
> > > > sax might have been more suitable. I told him to go
> screw himself.
> > > >
> > > > It was an interesting conversation.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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