Klarinet Archive - Posting 000446.txt from 2003/12

From: "Ken Wolman" <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] C-Clarinet Alert
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 22:57:45 -0500

Forest Aten wrote:

> Dan,
>
> I don't have any valid arguments. Only those based on the kind of prejudice
> you mention in your story.
>
> What a great story teller you are....and to be sure, your story was to the
> point. People show bias in many ways. I love that your patron had called
> Drucker for advise. Makes me smile.

I wonder if Mrs. Bergen (any relation to the name or names behind Bergen
County, NJ, I wonder?) even called Drucker, or whether she was blowing
smoke. I also have to wonder whether this rich nobody was able to get
herself an ultra-gig like conducting the Missa Solemnis with the
Philharmonic when it's clear she didn't know waste material from Shinola
about how Beethoven scored the music. I don't know Stanley Drucker but
my third question is whether he'd have been so crass as to suggest a
player be fired for following the composer's instructions.

Dan, maybe you should have brought that tenor sax with you. You could
have played a few Coleman Hawkins riffs. The rehearsal could have
sounded like that scene in A Night at the Opera where the orchestra
plays "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the prologue to Il Trovatore.

Ken

tenor sax to the next rehearsal and snuck a few Coleman Hawkins riffs
into the Missa. It would be like the pit orchestra in "A Night at the
Opera" playing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the prologue to "Il
Trovatore."
--
Kenneth Wolman
Proposal Development Department
Room SW334
Sarnoff Corporation
609-734-2538

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