Klarinet Archive - Posting 000653.txt from 2002/03

From: "Don Yungkurth" <clarinet@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] So you wanna play in tune?
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:09:26 -0500

David Niethamer wrote:

>on 3/21/2002 12:00 AM, Bill Edinger wrote:

>>This thread reminds me of the anecdote about, I believe it was, Bruno
>>Walter, who, after allowing the orchestra to tune, pronounced, "Thank you,
>>gentlemen. We will now procede to play out of tune...together."

>paraphrase of a quote from George Szell, to an orchestra he guest
>conducted:

>Gentlemen, I want to thank you for your generosity during this week. At
>each rehearsal I have asked you for the A, and you have regularly given
>me two or three!

I like the one attributed to Sir Thomas Beecham. His oboist, Leon Goossens,
was noted for his wide vibrato. Goossens sounded his "A" and Beecham said,
"There you are gentlemen, take your pick"

Don Yungkurth (clarinet@-----.net)

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