Klarinet Archive - Posting 000027.txt from 2006/12

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Alors Tony Pay: Quelle chutzpah!!
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:24:17 -0500


Dan Leeson wrote,
> If you want to know the definition of "chutzpah"
> talk to Tony Pay.
>
> He and I have been going over some of the details
> for the program at the Library of Congress next
> week. And for the first time I was given exactly
> what is going to be played following my talk in the
> Whittall Pavillion.
>
> The groups starts with K. 375 ( 8). Then they play
> K. 361. In between the two they will do some basset
> horn trios (of Stadler, I think) and finally the magnificent
> K. 410 for two basset horns and bassoon, though they
> may do it with three basset horns, a combination that
> works exceptionally well.
>
> But I think that anyone who is going to do 375 and
> 361 on the same program is looking for a death wish.
> Either one is a killer. The combination of them is big
> bite of the musical apple.
>
> That is genuine, first-class, number 1 CHUTZPAH!!

Aw, Tony Pay and his colleagues with the Orchestra of the Age of
Enlightenment don't need chutzpah. They've got *skills*. I'm looking
forward to this terrific program.

Lelia Loban

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