Klarinet Archive - Posting 000146.txt from 2006/10

From: Tom Wood <n4cid@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Library of Congress ticekts for the Dec. 7 concert
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:20:01 -0400

dnleeson wrote:
> Lelia Loban posted on where and when things were going to happen
> for those interested in the concert on Dec. 7. But I was
> confused enough that I checked things out and here is the
> straight skinny.
>
> There are no tickets needed for the pre-concert lecture at 6:15
> p.m. but yes, tickets ARE needed for the concert at 8p.m. Folks
> can get the tickets--cheap, less than 3 bucks each--at
> Ticketmaster. They can also come down with NO tickets when they
> come to the lecture. At that time, they will either be given a
> left-over concert ticket or a voucher for a turned-in ticket,
> which is redeemed at 7:30 p.m. when the concert hall opens. Or
> you can also take your chances with no tickets closer to curtain
> time and get in that way--if there's room. As the speaker, I got
> two tickets that I will sell for $3.05. Never miss a chance to
> make a profit.
>
> There are NO acoustically bad seats in the Coolidge. There are
> some physically uncomfortable ones in the last rows (S & T I
> think.)
>
> The group that will be playing (in the Coolidge Auditorium, of
> course) is the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. I believe
> that it is an original instrument group. Their recordings are
> marvellous. I have asked, but not insisted that they drop m. 111
> in the fifth movement, but that is their call.
>
> The Whittall pavilion is right next to the Coolidge Auditorium.
> The manuscript of K. 361 will be in the Foyer of the Coolidge, in
> a well-protected case with two guys built like cigarette machines
> standing next to it with drawn AK47s. Touching the case will
> result in 50,000 volts of electricity zooming through your body
> for 2 seconds, after which you will have no body for anything to
> zoom through.
>
> I hope to see any of you who are coming after the concert. Don't
> try to touch me! I am famous and will have guards and groupies to
> protect me from the great unwashed.
>
> Dan Leeson
> DNLeeson@-----.net
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What about Tony Pay.....? Doesn't Tony play in the O.A.E.?

(Ha!! You might get to touch each other!)

Tom W

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