Two dissipated bassoons, chatting to overcome boredom in the midst of rehearsing the
Hungarian March
.
Triggering the memorable anger of an unpayable Louis de Funès as a tyrannical conductor.
This cult scene from
La Grande Vadrouille
sparked hilarity among generations of spectators.
But was she so far removed from the realities of the Palais Garnier pit?
Not so sure, judging by the many drawings that the musicians of the Opera left, from the end of the 18th century until the 1960s, inside the scores that still haunt the shelves of the copy: the department responsible for the conservation and preparation of orchestral material used for the performance of a lyrical work at the Paris Opera.
In his delectable work
Fosse notes.
Another history of the Opera
, just published by Éditions Premieres Loges and of which our colleague Christian Merlin, a passionate orchestral exegete, signs the preface, Jean-Noël Crocq, solo bass clarinet
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