Klarinet Archive - Posting 000326.txt from 2009/01

From: jvabulas3@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] In-Dog-uration
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:38:34 -0500

Mozart and Richard Strauss (as goes the basset horn, so goes the glass
armonica?)

-----Original Message-----
From: kurtheisig@-----.net
To: klarinet@-----.org
Sent: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 5:03 pm
Subject: Re: [kl] In-Dog-uration

Bill Clinton played a fair country bar room tenor.

Norm Panetta is a piano player.

Dick Nixom played piano.

"Give em Hell" Harry Truman played decent? popular piano.

George Washington played violin.

Thomas Jefferson played violin.

Ben Franklin played vioin. He also invented the glass armonica.

Two major composers wrote for it. Can anyone name those composers?

Kurt

-----Original Message-----
>From: Bear Woodson <bearwoodson@-----.net>
>Sent: Jan 23, 2009 12:17 PM
>To: Klarinet List <klarinet@-----.org>
>Subject: [kl] In-Dog-uration
>
>> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:06:17 +0100
>> To: "klarinetlijst" <klarinet@-----.org>
>> From: "rien stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
>> Subject: Hello
>> Message-ID: <00A4EDB72020425DB3887A94D930194C@rienstein>
>>
>> Hello
>> After a long time of absence I am back on the list
>> again. . . . I don't want to start a political discussion
>> on this list, but first of all I want to congratulate our
>> USA fellow listers with the inauguration of Barak
>> Obama. Let's hope and pray he will be able to fulfill
>> at least half of the hopes he raised in their hearts.
>
> I turned 18, and voted for a US President for my first
>time, way back in 1972, resulting in Richard Nixon, who
>had to Resign, rather than be Impeached and possibly get
>sent to prison. Every President since then had greatly
>disappointed me, and the Strangle Hold by the
>Corporations on our progressively Corrupt Politicians
>has led to the problems that we have today. I've learned
>to hope for the best, but believe nothing that they promise,
>and to expect worse corruption, more lies and broken
>promises.
>
> With that caveat in mind, my greatest, and least
>controversial, hope is to see how the Presidential
>In-Dog-uration turns out: when they pick the Presidential
>Puppy. That's when we will all get to see what species,
>gender and color the First Dog will be, and if the charming
>First Daughters will be able to tolerate it, in spite of a
>history of Allergy problems.
>
> However I seriously doubt that the Premier Pooch will
>be able to master the necessary embouchure to play the
>clarinet. Does anyone know if any member of the New
>First Family has a background in music, and if so, on
>which instruments?
>
>
> Bear Woodson
> Tucson, Arizona, USA
>
>Home: 520 - 881 - 2558
>"Bear Woodson" <bearwoodson@-----.net>
>
>
>
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