Re: Slip during concert -- oops!

[Alex J. Lubet <lubet001...>]

Responding to the message of <e6nudtke08tct6vb71uhua51emdbncdiqg (at) 
4ax(dot)com>
from jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org:
> 
> 
> My high school's "Pops Concert" -- select chorale, jazz band, and other =
> small groups -- was a couple of weeks ago. This year I put together a =
> klezmer group with myself, another trombonist, and a bad trumpeteer. We =
> played two songs. The first was the easy chusidl Merlin Sheppard taught =
> us in the "ear band", and it went pretty well. The second song, "Leben =
> Zol Palestina" (we played it as a midtempo bulgar), I did with just me =
> and the other trombone.
> 
> Anyway, in the beginning the other trombonist was supposed to vamp for a =
> few measures before I came in. I said "vamp in D" and counted off. He =
> must've thought I meant the D *section*, where it changes keys, because =
> he started vamping in B, and then he tried to correct himself, or =
> something, and I had no idea what the hell he was doing. So I turned to =
> him, by now furious, and said, "What the FU-K are you doing?!"
> 
> Now, it wasn't particularly loud. But it was loud enough. In a silent =
> auditorium -- for, of course, he stopped playing right after I said =
> "the." All the people in the auditorium were laughing.
> 
> Of course, we then went on to play it again, and this time it went fine. =
> But it was a pretty scary experience.=20
> 
> Has something like this happened to anyone else?
> 
Depending on what you mean by something like this, I suspect it's happened to 
absolutely everyone.



Alex Lubet, Ph. D.
Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music
Adjunct Professor of American and Jewish Studies
University of Minnesota
2106 4th St. S
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612 624-7840 612 624-8001 (fax)

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