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RE: What's wrong with Stoltzman?

Author: Lelia
Date: 1999-08-25 23:56

Ken Shaw wrote:
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Lelia wrote:
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Stoltzman also got a reputation for eccentricity of a type that some people consider offensive, when he streaked the stage.... It turned out that he had simply followed the instructions of an avant-garde composer who wrote into the music that the clarinetist should exit, strip and then streak the stage....

Lelia -

I've heard the story from an unimpeachable source (who was there at the time), but never with any mention of your information. Where did you learn this? I had always heard it was simply an immature gesture by a brilliant player barely out of his teens, protesting a dreadful performance and a worse audience.

Ken Shaw

Hope I didn't contribute to spreading a false rumor. I can't claim any "unimpeachable source" and I wasn't there. I read this story in the klarinet archives, by searching under "naked" and "Stoltzman" after someone on this BB several months ago gave just enough of a hint to rouse my prurient interest. Someone gave the version you just did; then someone else excused Stoltzman's behavior by saying the music called for it.

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