LOL @ Margaret and having been a viola player in an orchestra I know how devastating trombones can be.
LOL @ Margaret and having been a viola player in an orchestra I know how devastating trombones can be.
Yes, very funny unless, you're a trombone player I suppose.
Margaret
Nothing behind the trombones (occasionally percussion AND they deserve that). As to if they were offended by Strauss' comment ... they have paid no attention. I always felt the trombones to be the bullies of the orchestra, whilst, the angelic harpists were the ones most likely to jump into bed with you ... let's not go into my orchestral past!!
I hope the angelic harpists leave their instruments behind when they leap into bed.
"If you have to ask, you'll never know."
--Miles Davis' answer to the question, "What is Jazz?"
Oy veh - talking smack about trombonists are we?And if it wasn't for those sometimes lascivious woodwind players we could finish the rehearsal earlier - and they could put on a bimbo eruption like you wouldn't believe...
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"How does one define a musical disaster? A trombone player trying to disconnect his cell phone".
"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."
Jean Paul Richter
"Do we have a p at letter D?" Concertmaster of the a youth orchestra I played with years ago to the conductor. Maestro: "Hmm, possibly, but I'd rather you wait until your scheduled break."
HaHa, good one CT.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't got the joke yet.
Oliver Herford