[Dixielandjazz] Jazz & Classical

[LARRY'S Signs and Large Format Printing]

Hi Tom
Yes this guy really puts on a show.  The local PBS station brings him in as a fund raiser.  I have known and played with a lot of the symphony guys over the years and with one exception they all had their head up their a**.  It's a snob thing.  They think they are the best and they let you know it in a lot of ways.  I have a friend who isn't in the symphony but does play in the Philharmonic here.  He hates the guy and does nothing but put down the show.  He says that Andre Rieu was asked to never perform in Vienna.  Somehow I can't believe that.

The St. Louis Symphony is a top rated symphony and they deserve the acclaim that it brings.  They also deserve good pay as we all do for our services.  However this isn't an 8 hour job and they pick up on average $50 a lesson from people who want to say they studied with...  All in all they pull down some real cash and keep wanting more as we all do.  I appreciate them but I don't worship at their feet and they just need to un bend and get a little more show biz into their act.

My wife, bless her heart, will go and sit through Beethoven and other heavy heavy things just to hear Bolero.  Musicians just aren't bright sometimes.  When they do some shows they have a good audience and when they do others they don't.  They are like some jazzers I know who throw out the stuff the musicians like and the public be damned.  People stay away in droves.  This should be a clue. DUH!

The sad part in all this is that if they lightened up and put on shows they could include a couple of tunes that would educate and bring up the audience.

Just look at them.  Always dressed in black like a bunch of undertakers.  Actually this is the Union's fault because unless the employer wants to pay for the costumes or concert dress it's black, black, black.

Andre Rieu has every woman in the group dressed in colorful evening dresses of  somewhat old fashioned cut.  It's spectacular actually.  The only group I would like to see more is the Japanese nude girl band but that's another story.

Larry
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: TCASHWIGG at aol.com 
  To: sign.guy at charter.net 
  Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 10:57 PM
  Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Jazz & Classical


  In a message dated 2/10/05 5:55:07 PM Pacific Standard Time, sign.guy at charter.net writes:



    I just don't know why they don't take a lesson from the Boston Pops or Andre Rieu.  They seem to do well with their audiences as well as financially.
    Larry



  Hi Larry:

  Because they refuse to join the world of Reality where they would have to be top notch and earn their money the old fashioned way "By being good enough to attract an audience that would pay to see and hear them"/

  Most symphonies are simply on the corporate and Public taxpayers welfare system, and are not about to jump off even though the ship is sinking rapidly.

  Now Rieu sound like a guy I would pay to go see and hear.  Thanks for alerting me to him, I shall be on the watch for a chance to catch the show.

  Cheers,

  Tom