Klarinet Archive - Posting 000088.txt from 2002/07

From: Robert Fosdick <bfosdick@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] You know it's true talent when......
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 07:22:56 -0400

Bill--
Where was that concert?
(And thanks for the great description of it!)
Bob

At 06:47 AM 7/3/02, you wrote:
>Tonight they played a Beethoven wind + piano quintet.
>
>Just as the 2nd movement ended, someone's cell phone went off. The
>phone's ringer was set to a classical theme, perhaps it was the
>Mendelssohn theme that is stored on many cell phones. But the theme
>began exactly on the down beat of the preceding movement. I'm sure
>that Beethoven didn't have those particular notes in mind when he wrote
>his quintet, but nevertheless the notes sort of 'fitted'.
>
>As if the five musicians (Fred Ormond on clarinet) were a single
>organism, they waited for the cell phone to finish its theme, and then,
>still on the beat, they began the 3rd movement as though the cell phone
>had been part of the composition. You could tell from their grins and
>their crinkled eyes that they were fighting not to ruin the effect by
>laughing.
>
>Then it was Marilyn Horne's turn to sing some of Schubert's songs.
>(What a pleasure to hear an opera singer who is in love with music, not
>with herself !!!)
>
>....but before she began, the pianist made a firm statement to the
>audience that everyone should check their cell phones and pagers.
>
>Just as Marilyn Horne filled her lungs:
>
>
>
><Ringy Dingy!> <Ringy Dingy!> <Ringy Dingy!>
>
>
>
>The remainder of the concert was a Schubert rondo for five strings and
>Fritz Kreisler for violin + piano. The violinist's dancing movements
>and tossing hair were whipped cream on top of a musical sundae.
>
>Cheers, <ring ring> Oh No! Not Again!
> Bill
>
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