Percussionist loses stick
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I guess that concert was a hit.
That is funny!
No it’s not, even though it was obviously unintentional. The woman could have been seriously injured, although I trust the fact that this has been posted on social media means that she wasn’t.
Relax, Malcolm, no permanent injuries occurred.
Now go look up trombone player sneezing in performance – many people were wounded from hysterical laughter afterwards.
He didn’t realize the repercussions.
It’s from a concert band performance of the Holst First Suite, as I recall, and has been on the internet for several years.
Poor Holst! Having his music played with such lousy intonation and a bass drummer with no technique; the part does not say “beat the hell out of the drum”.
Do hope she was OK. I do seem to remember having seen that happen in an ensemble I once performed with. I was not seated nearby the percussion section so I don’t remember the details very well.
There is a similar mishap with a sledgehammer in Maazel’s “Ring” arrangement that was floating around YouTube but now seems to be gone.
Where: University of Regina, in Canada.
When: Not quite sure, “Last concert of the semester” and the videos started being noticed by me in 2019, so probably late 2018 or sometime in 2019 in late autumn or late spring:
https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/when-a-holst-recital-turns-into-a-sore-head/