Klarinet Archive - Posting 000014.txt from 2005/11

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Driving Dan NUTS
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 13:20:25 -0500

During my first sabbatical leave in Paris in 1985 I went to a concert
given by a composer Ferrari in the big round Radio France building on
the west side of the city. Silly me. When I purchased a copy of
Officiel des Spectacles which lists all of the goings-on in Paris
each week I figured it would be orchestral music by Wolf-Ferrari and
that the magazine didn't have enough space to put the full name in
its little box.

Wrong.

I arrived at the very large concert hall on the ground floor and was
treated to a stage with 51 speakers sitting at various heights and a
little table holding a Macintosh computer in the center. The
"concert" was contemporary percussion, as I recall, and, there is no
kinder word, awful. The little kid an aisle away from me who started
crying in the middle of it and had to be taken to the lobby by his
dad certainly had the right idea ("The king is naked, you silly
twits."). At the conclusion, the composer, Ferrari, sitting in the
first row, stood and turned to receive the audience's measured applause.

Ah, well, the concert was free. And it was a pleasant night out in
the city of light.

Oliver

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