Klarinet Archive - Posting 000186.txt from 2011/03

From: Martin Baxter <martinbaxter1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] To sit or stand, that is the question
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:57:47 -0400


On 21 Mar 2011, at 15:29, Peter Gentry wrote:

You have to remember that there is not much love lost between the English
and the French at least not at Governmental level.

Peter,
I hope you are emphasizing "at government level". A lot of us Brits have always been very anglophile, and have generally found the French people we have met and known extremely kind and courteous. I have played in a couple of French Orchestras, written music for French players (& YES they did perform it at public concerts) and still have French friends with whom I have a standing invitation to visit. I don't even get rude remarks about the incomprehensibility of my accent when visiting Paris; and Heaven knows I deserve them!
I would say that the opinion you expressed is about a century out of date.
Martin
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