Klarinet Archive - Posting 000072.txt from 2002/03

From: alevin@-----. Levin)
Subj: Re: [kl] Great Concert
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 16:23:49 -0500

I am mortified and humiliated! Last Saturday evening, my wife and I were
congratulating ourselves that on the coming Saturday evening we would make
the 1-hour jaunt to Lewisburg, PA to hear Bob Levin and Tony Pay in
person. We've just now realized that the concert was happening even as we
felt so self-satisfied. I don't know how we blew that one.

Tony - you must come back.

Allen

At 05:01 AM 3/4/02 +0000, you wrote:
>>Even though the clarinets didn't have as much to do in this >performance,
>>it was fun to note the curved neck basset clarinet Tony >was using, and
>>hear the few slightly juicy passages afforded Tony and >his cohort, Jane Booth.
>>
>>Perhaps you might get to say hello to Tony if you're luckier than I >was.
>
>I'm sorry I didn't get to see you.
>
>I found this concert interesting in two additional quite personal ways,
>both probably due to atmospheric changes: first, that the barrel of my Bb
>clarinet split in the interval, necessitating emergency repairs; and
>secondly that the bottom half of my A basset-clarinet fell off
>unexpectedly during the encore, smashing the bell-ring and rendering my
>subsequent contribution, well, *incomplete*:-)
>
>My wife had reported to me that you were coming to the concert. Was it
>you who was shouting from the seats behind the orchestra at the end?
>
>I did look as we went out, but there were several possible exits from the
>hall, and I was a bit overcome by the 'double whammy' instrumental failure.
>That I'd had very little to play made it worse, if anything. So if the
>shameful truth be told, I was mostly thinking about my upcoming beer -- or
>possibly about my two or more upcoming beers....
>
>Tony
>
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