E. Blackadder
12-17-2001, 10:46 AM
From the Progressive Review website:
"Is that vibrato, or is it simply out of tune"? "Six flats. So almost every note is lower than you think." "There is a choir involved in this, so it would help enormously if you just simply play on the beat." "Our rehearsals do not necessarily take place in dialogues. When I say something, I don't always have to get an answer back from you." "We are tuning up. And I know that everyone hears it better than the conductor, that has always been so; but I'm trying to do something about it." "Who is playing on that bag of knives and forks? Could I just hear that? . . . Mmmm, that doesn't work; don't you have some spoons there, too? Let's see! . . . Oh, then it's all right, I thought all you had was wooden handles." "Here I am absolutely cr---d out psychologically." "Ladies and gentlemen of the chorus, I don't want to bring your health into peril, but would you mind just standing up"? "No, sorry, it is an interpretation, to be sure, but it isn't mine." "Yes, that is a big triplet; but there are limits." "I give up! I can't keep my beat together with your foot"!
Is it the ornery conductor -- or the union symphony? Inquiring minds want to know!
"Is that vibrato, or is it simply out of tune"? "Six flats. So almost every note is lower than you think." "There is a choir involved in this, so it would help enormously if you just simply play on the beat." "Our rehearsals do not necessarily take place in dialogues. When I say something, I don't always have to get an answer back from you." "We are tuning up. And I know that everyone hears it better than the conductor, that has always been so; but I'm trying to do something about it." "Who is playing on that bag of knives and forks? Could I just hear that? . . . Mmmm, that doesn't work; don't you have some spoons there, too? Let's see! . . . Oh, then it's all right, I thought all you had was wooden handles." "Here I am absolutely cr---d out psychologically." "Ladies and gentlemen of the chorus, I don't want to bring your health into peril, but would you mind just standing up"? "No, sorry, it is an interpretation, to be sure, but it isn't mine." "Yes, that is a big triplet; but there are limits." "I give up! I can't keep my beat together with your foot"!
Is it the ornery conductor -- or the union symphony? Inquiring minds want to know!