Klarinet Archive - Posting 000505.txt from 2005/03

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] OT: conducting without a baton; was, excessive amplification
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:30:58 -0500

I believe it was Jean Baptiste Lully who hit himself in the foot
with a large baton and then died of gangrene from the infection.

Clumsy!

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Paikin [mailto:larrypaikin@-----.net]
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 2:41 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] OT: conducting without a baton; was, excessive
amplification

Spike Jones?

David Blumberg wrote:

> There actually was in music history a conductor who was "killed
by his
> baton".
>
> Anyone else know who? :)
>
> David Blumberg
> http://www.mytempo.com
>
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> "Patricia A. Smith" <arlyss1@-----.net>
> Subject: Re: [kl] OT: conducting without a baton; was,
excessive
> amplification
> Message-ID: <423D419F.2040907@-----.net>
>
> Dan Leeson wrote:
>
>> A baton is fairly precise. As an ancillary benefit, it can
also be
>> used to kill the conductor, it being pointed, sharp, and all.
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