They probably were roundly embarrassed by our knuckle-dragging behavior -- the audience persistently applauded between movements (and sometimes whenever it got quiet in the middle of a piece) and mistook America the Beautiful for the National Anthem and leapt to their feet..... But such a reception serves them right! I would have chased them back to the academy myself but there were a bunch of muggers already in pursuit -- drooling about all those fancy Peccatte violin bows they could pawn for new clothes at the Second Mile.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 7/23/2007 6:08:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the Philadelphia Orchestra should be ashamed The orchestra and its second-string (good enough for the bumpkins) conductor only got $80,000 to oom-pah in the specially-seeded Clark Park bowl. So they obviously made a big sacrifice to grace our little community and should at least have exclusive rights to audio and visual records of their having been there. After all, if you were the great Philadelphia Orchestra -- and had to stoop to come to a place where there might be mosquitos, screaming children, Neanderthals who wouldn't know Buxtehude from Albinoni, unleashed dogs (some of them mongrel), anarchists, greedy slumlords, lawyers, the anointed, the benighted, and others too depraved to even think about -- for a measly $80,000, wouldn't you want to be sure that any and all documentation of the embarrassment was in your hands so it could be suppressed too? ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
