Klarinet Archive - Posting 000117.txt from 2004/06

From: klarinet <klarinet@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Scandal Rocks the New York Philharmonic
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:56:13 -0400

This had been posted on the clarinet bulletin board a week ago.

Read how some of the "regulars" dealt with this news in their own original
style:

http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=148536&t=148536

Glenn Kantor (GBK)

----- Original Message -----
From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
To: "klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 12:33 PM
Subject: [kl] Scandal Rocks the New York Philharmonic

> Steroids Scandal Rocks New York Philharmonic
>
> 6/10/2004
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> New York - The world of classical music was in turmoil this
> morning when
> officials of the Professional Orchestra League revealed that
> seven principal
> players of the New York Philharmonic had tested positive for
> steroids and would
> receive automatic life suspensions from the league.
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> "It's a real blow for New York's chances for the World Series
> this Fall,"
> said Morris "Lefty" Lefkowitz, chief classical music
> correspondent for the New
> York Times who is covering the Philharmonic's rookie camp in
> Sarasota, Florida.
> "These rookies are going to have to step up to the mouthpiece if
> New York has
> any hope of salvaging its season."
>
> Fans of the Boston Symphony Orchestra are hopeful that New York's
> problems
> will finally allow their team to overcome "Toscanini's Curse".
> Since 1918, when
> Boston conductor Arturo Toscanini was traded to New York for
> three violinists
> and a relief bassoonist, no Boston orchestra has ever won the
> World Series.
>
> In related news, the Cleveland Orchestra has sent principal
> clarinetist Frank
> Cohen down to their Triple A orchestra in Bucyrus, Ohio. Cohen
> has been
> struggling of late with excessive squeaking and poor intonation
> and was on the
> injured reserve list for most of last season. And the San
> Francisco Orchestra has
> traded concertmaster Howard Moskowsky to St. Louis for its entire
> flute
> section and a violist to be named later.
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> Dan Leeson
> DNLeeson@-----.net
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