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 Re: Mechanical Failure during a performance.
Author: Chris Card 
Date:   2010-01-18 10:43

Walter Grabner wrote:
>Once, back when I was a student, I was playing the bass clarinet part to the Janacek
>"Mladi" sextet (wind quintet plus bass clarinet).
> ...

I was browsing in a bookshop this weekend and came across a (very large) biography of Janacek, and I was amused to read a description of the first performance of "Mladi":
the clarinetist had a mechanical failure just before going on stage, which meant that one note, very prominant in the piece, didn't sound at all. Rather than stopping and trying to fix it, he soldiered on to the end like this. Throughout the performance, Janacek, in the audience, became more and more agitated and at the end he ran to the green room to remonstrate with the performer, before coming out and telling the audience that what they'd heard (which must have sounded rather odd) wasn't what he'd written!

Chris



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