{"id":91,"date":"2006-07-26T09:45:01","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T09:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2006\/07\/26\/odds-and-ends\/"},"modified":"2006-07-26T16:07:24","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T16:07:24","slug":"odds-and-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2006\/07\/26\/odds-and-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Odds and ends"},"content":{"rendered":"

I want to call reader\u2019s attention to a lovely comment from Harriet Gedge<\/a>, daughter of conductor David Gedge. I\u2019m so happy to hear that David is coming along in his march to recovery, but it sounds like a truly arduous process.
\nOther news today- over at oboeinsight<\/a>, we have the revelation that not all classical musicians are smart. Patricia’s post was inspired by a rather silly news piece about a cellist robbing a bank, but there are plenty of other examples. One of my favorite moments was on tour in France with one of the IU orchestras as a student. We\u2019d just had a long, frustrating rehearsal of a Mozart concerto under a not-very-good conductor. One of my roommates, also a cellist, and I \u00a0were bemoaning the lack of style and general elegance in our orchestra\u2019s Mozart and I said something really deep like \u201cMozart\u2019s music is really hard.\u201d At this point, our third roommate chimed in with this one-
\n\u201cMozart is easy, you just count the rests and play the notes.\u201d
\nTrust me, he wasn’t being ironic or making a sly point. No worries, though- he\u2019s gone on to be principal _______ at one major orchestra and associate principal at another. Lack of brains or interest in music doesn\u2019t have to be a handicap as long as you can get your fingers around the first page of Don Juan.
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