I was not aware that there are rednecks in Uruguay. Even more suprising,
one in a symphony orchestra.
Calvin Krug
>1812 overture -- please don't try this at home (from Steve Dujack)
>
>August, 1998, Montevideo, Uruguay
>
>Paolo Esperanza, bass-trombonist with the Simphonica Mayor
>de Uruguay, in a misplaced moment of inspiration decided to
>make his own contribution to the cannon shots fired as part of
>the orchestra's performance of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture at
>an outdoor children's concert. In complete seriousness he
>placed a large, ignited firecracker, which was equivalent in
>strength to a quarter stick of dynamite, into his aluminum straight
>mute and then stuck the mute into the bell of his quite new
>Yamaha in-line double-valve bass trombone.
>*****major editing*********
>The moral of the story? Beware the next time you hear someone in the
>trombone section yell out "Hey, everyone, watch this!"
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