Klarinet Archive - Posting 000056.txt from 2007/04

From: Audrey Travis <clr91nt@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Bad joke time
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 11:32:09 -0400

Fabulous!

Audrey
On 7-Apr-07, at 4:51 AM, David Blumberg wrote:

> Ok, I'll add my 2 cents worth. I posted this originally back in 1999,
> but here goes again.......... This is classic stuff and the best part
> is that it was actually said by him. My chamber music coaches in
> College (Panitz, Garfield, Gigliotti, Jones) would bust on him
> occasionally with the same sayings. "When I die, IF I die" was one of
> my favorites. I played the Teton Seminar Festival with Kragmalnik
> (spelling is wrong, but he was the former Concertmaster of Phila.) and
> he told me that he was in rehearsal playing the Beethoven Violin
> Concerto and he had a problem with something so he stopped playing.
> Ormandy kept conducting and an entire page later suddenly Ormandy
> stopped and said "what, what" like he all of a sudden realized that
> the soloist wasn't playing anymore - after a page ......
> If I recall, it was Murray Panitz who collected the sayings of Ormandy.
>
> David Blumberg
> http://www.mytempo.com
>
>
> THE WIT OF MAESTRO EUGENE ORMANDY
>

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