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 Re: Drunk at Rehearsal???
Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date:   2005-04-22 16:59

First time I ever played at the Royal Festival Hall in London, I visited the Artists' Buffet (pub) backstage at intermission and chatted with two local musicians (from the Royal Phil.) who were hired to sub for a couple of our players who had become sick on tour. They said they were thrilled to play with an American orchestra--why?--because with a British band it was usually too crowded to get to the bar at "interval!" I've also experience backstage "watering holes" at the Philharmonie in Berlin and in Cologne.
When the Berlin Opera did a residency here in Washington at the Kennedy Center, the backstage canteen suddenly had Lowenbrau (unfortunately in bottles, not on draft as in Berlin.) The beer disappeared as soon as the Opera left town!

This is to illustrate cultural differences about alchohol and the (musical) workplace--not to condone performing when sloshed. Never done it myself, but I have had colleagues whose lives were cut short by alchohol abuse.

I had the pleasure of playing behing Stephane Grapelli a couple of times. He and his quintet passed around a bottle copiously before they played--gloriously!



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