Mein Lieblingsfundstück aus der ZEIT neulich….

Sind doch in altehrwürdiger Gesellschaft, die Autoren:

Parisian critic Georges Pioch, who attended The Rite’s preview performance, provides an anecdote about the opening solo that probably echoed many concertgoers’ confusion:

„You hear the prelude, where a wind instrument is dominant. We ask each other, which instrument can produce such sounds. I reply: ‘This is an oboe.’ But my neighbor to the right, who is a great composer, assures me that it is a muted trumpet. My neighbor to the left, no less learned in music, opines: ‘I would rather think that it is a clarinet.’ During the intermission we ask the conductor himself, and we learn that it was the bassoon that put us in such great doubt.“

Bildung ist alles!