Klarinet Archive - Posting 000226.txt from 2004/02

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] An unfortunate omission
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:37:03 -0500

I would like to add to Keith's lascivious description of what is
laughingly being advertised as a scholarly concert, the fact that it
will done at the Bellagio with full frontal nudity, except for the
basset horns which may or may not have a suitable figleaf to preserve
modesty, if we can find one large enough and someplace to attach it.

The sex police may have to be present to prevent any illicit conduct
(which in Las Vegas is defined as having carnal knowledge of either a
McCormack reaper while it is running or a Moose in estrus). Las Vegas is
rather liberal in that regard, but a Moose in estrus while playing the
Carnival of Venice variations on a fig-leafed basset horn is a dramatic
challenge. If I remember correctly, two different players tried it in
Cluj, Romania in the 1920s. In one case the player was killed during the
triple tonguing variation (measures 165-183), and in the other, the
Moose had a heart attack and died with a smile on its face. It was all
very sad, though the gesture was noble. The press did not report too
many details. You can read what was reported in the Cluj Poop, Oct. 17,
1921.

Scholarship like this you can't find every day.

Dan

Keith wrote:
> Nancy,
>
> Well of course we senior citizens get all the breaks. Old age and treachery
> will beat youth and ardour any time. And a senior citizen with a basset horn
> is armed and dangerous.
>
> We have just started the Strauss Happy Workshop here in Santa Fe. Already we
> have two basset horns (Forest Aten and me) working their mellifluous charms.
> On Wednesday Dan joins us to play and lecture on the rare Mozart basset
> horn/clarinet music, with recitals on Thursday evening and Friday afternoon,
> and then we repeat in Las Vegas NV on Monday 23. Las Vegas will take an
> economic hit, since clubs will empty as the dancers flock to sit at our
> feet. The Governors of NM and NV have issued warnings and advised parents
> within 100 miles of the epicenters to lock up their daughters.
>
> In the adult version of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, the instrument was a
> basset horn. And they didn't end up in the river.
>
> Keith Bowen
> Director, Kammermusik Workshops
>
> www.kammermusikworkshops.org
>
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>
>
>
>>Dan,
>>
>>Now we know why you play that basset horn every chance you
>>get! Senior citizens get all the breaks.
>>
>>Nancy
>>
>>Nancy Buckman
>>Principal Clarinet / Orchestra AACC
>>eefer@-----.net
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