Free Speech: themusicalrevolution.com

Quite a number of years ago, the Seattle Symphony was doing Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 under the baton of Milton Katims.

Now at this point, you must understand two things:

There's a quite long segment in this symphony where the basses don't have a thing to do. Not a single note for page after page.
There used to be a tavern called Dez's 400, right across the street from the Seattle Opera House, rather favored by local musicians.
It had been decided that during this performance, once the bass players had played their parts in the opening of the symphony, they were to quietly lay down their instruments and leave the stage, rather than sit on thier stools looking and feeling dumb for twenty minutes. Once they got backstage, someone suggested that they trot across the street and quaff a few brews.

When they got there, a European nobleman recognized that they were musicians, and bought them several rounds of drinks. Two of the bassists passed out, and the rest of the section, not to mention the nobleman, were rather drunk. Finally, one of them looked at his watch and exclaimed, "Look at the time! We'll be late!"

The remaining bassists tried in vain to wake up their section mates, but finally those who were still conscious had to give up and run across the street to the Opera House.

While they were on their way in, the bassist who suggested this excursion in the first place said, "I think we'll still have enough time--I anticipated that something like this could happen, so I tied a string around the last pages of the score. When he gets down to there, Milton's going to have to slow the tempo way down while he waves the baton with one hand and fumbles with the string with the other."

Sure enough, when they got back to the stage they hadn't missed their entrance, but one look at their conductor's face told them they were still in serious trouble. Katims was furious! After all...

It was the bottom of the Ninth,
the basses were loaded,
the score was tied,
there were two men out,
and the Count was full.

Symph#9Joke

i love it, that's a great joke. it reminds me of a symphony i went to years ago. the man next to me feel asleep and snored very loudly through the whole performance. after the performance and everyone was leaving, i tapped this gentleman on the shoulder, and said "hey, it's time to get up and go to work"! he jumped up and said "oh my god, i'm late for work". at that point all the people around him gave him a standing ovation. it was great fun.
angel

Happy green beer day all. But, what is this day really about? Chek into: http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/stpatricksday/
And, most importantly, here's some music/poetry for the festivities in question: http://www.butlerwebs.com/holidays/stpatricks.htm#POEMS & SONG LYRICS
Much love everybody!
PS. Angel, I think I can get 6-8 of you qs right? Man, I suck!

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