[Trombone-l] Booo!!

[Richardson, Timothy Mr. DAC USAG Ansbach DPW]

I remember that.  It was so bad the accordions left, and all but two
bagpipes.  

-----Original Message-----
From: emrose79 [mailto:emrose79 at sonic.net] 
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 4:36 AM
To: trombone-l at server5.samford.edu
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Booo!!

The San Francisco Bay Bones did a piece for the American Guild of 
Organists several years ago, and it was a horrible piece. It was so bad, 
that they not only booed it, but a couple of them actually walked up to 
the conductor (the composer) and threw their programs at him!  
Ed




james meador wrote:

> Well, I had an interesting experience today.  The guest conductor of 
> our orchestra was booed at the end of the program.  The program was 
> decent, at least the second half was.  We opened with a very fun and 
> energetic piece called La Boda de Luis Alonso-Intermezzo by Giminez, 
> then a Spanish guitar concerto by Castelnovo which I thought was 
> terribly boring.  We started the second half with Jules Massenet's Le 
> Cid Overture and ended with Le Cid Suite, both of which I thought were 
> fine pieces.  I recorded the concert and I thought we played well, 
> technically at least.  Musically, the performance left a little to be 
> desired.
>
> Despite the boos, we played the last movement of the suite as an 
> encore (and we did on Friday night as well).  Interestingly, they did 
> not boo the encore (they had probably already left).  I'm fairly 
> certain the boos were directed at the conductor because the two or 
> three people doing the booing would only do so when the conductor 
> walked out to bow.  I can't determine if they were booing because of 
> the musical interpretation or because of the programming, or what, but 
> it shocked everyone in the orchestra and the audience.  At least a 
> riot didn't break out!!
>
> James
>
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