Klarinet Archive - Posting 000129.txt from 2004/06

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Scandal Rocks the New York Philharmonic
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 08:37:09 -0400


Dan Leeson sent a clipping, datelined New York, 6/10/2004:
>Steroids Scandal Rocks New York Philharmonic

Glenn Kantor (GBK) replied,
>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
>>

I enjoyed the limericks! Clever folks on the BB.

That link goes to BrokenNewz.com, datelined 6/10/04. Curiously, BrokenNewz
credits the story to William Grim, 6/2/04. However, the story was first
published earlier than that. The San Francisco Chronicle, which intended
the satire as an April Fool's joke, accidentally ran it early. My father,
not realizing the item was a joke, clipped it and snail-mailed it to me,
but without the header, in a letter postmarked March 29. Therefore the
article was in print on or before March 29. I wanted to send the item to
the klarinet list then, but decided not to, because my father couldn't
provide adequate attribution. He remembered that the "Philharmonic"
clipping was a sidebar to a longer, obviously serious, article about the
steroid scandal in sports, but he hadn't saved the issue and couldn't give
me the date or the byline.

Someone who wrote a clever, copyrighted satire deserves credit for it. Does
anyone know the original source of this item? Did William Grim write it,
or is the BrokenNewz publication plagiarized, with a false byline?

Lelia Loban
lelialoban@-----.net
Original music compositions (listen or print free of charge):
http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/LeliaLoban

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