Klarinet Archive - Posting 000293.txt from 2003/08

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] The Mozart Forgeries!
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:36:40 -0400

I have an announcement to make that I hope will be of interest to every
reader of KLARINET.

Tomorrow, I sign a contract for the publication of my fiction novel,
"The Mozart Forgeries." It is an intellectual caper in which two men
combine their distinct and separate talents to forge two lost Mozart
manuscripts. Specifically, they will counterfeit, get authenticated by
several of the world's leading scholars, and then sell at public auction
the manuscripts of the Mozart clarinet concerto, and the quintet for
clarinet and string quartet. Their expectation is $20,000,000 for both
manuscripts.

You have no idea how much detail and information is needed to make the
story work. For example, there is the matter of the creation of
realistic 18th century paper with proper watermarks, the use of goose
quill pens, special ink, and a host of other technical details all of
which must pass the inspection of world-class authorities. There is also
the problem of a proper cover story that supports the supposed discovery
of the manuscripts and deals in no small degree with the history of the
disappearance of both the concerto and the quintet, ca. 1800.

It will be somewhere between 14 and 18 months before the novel makes its
appearance and one or two of the list members may be asked to review the
book prior to its appearance. Tony Pay has already read the book in an
early version, though it has changed since that time.

The schedule for release is deliberately chosen to be about 9 months
prior to the beginning of the many 250th anniversary celebrations
commemorating Mozart's birth. The term being used in the U.S. to
identify the event is "The Quarter Millenium Celebration, 1756-2006."

You can ask questions about the matter, but I don't promise to answer
all of them. The story has a murder, a double surprise ending, and a
little sex (about which my wife said I had little experience and even
less expertise). And I don't want to give out anything that would show
my hand.

Buy my book when it comes out and I will like you. Do not buy the book
and you run the risk of being told publicly that your sound is so dark
that it has disappeared entirely, that your mother wore army boots and
played polkas on a C clarinet with an extremely bright sound, and that
you occasionally play Schubert symphonies using a tenor sax in place of
the B-flat clarinet under the presumption that as long as the pitch is
preserved, what does it matter?
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**Dan Leeson **
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