Nice bit of 2nd violin "brain" virtuosity in Salome. wink emoticon In one passage, for example, R. Strauss writes suddenly a low E (a 3rd under the last string, G) - without any warning or time to tune down.
Apparently in one rehearsal players "protested", when seeing that. Strauss made a characteristic remark:
"Well, what did you expect me to write, a G?"
But as Norman del Mar writes:
"Strauss did not always expect the players to tune down". There was considerable "method in his apparent madness. In his more patient moments he would explain that if the player 'thought' the unobtainable note strongly enough and tried hard to look as if he 'was' playing it, the audience would never know it was missing."
Apparently in one rehearsal players "protested", when seeing that. Strauss made a characteristic remark:
"Well, what did you expect me to write, a G?"
But as Norman del Mar writes:
"Strauss did not always expect the players to tune down". There was considerable "method in his apparent madness. In his more patient moments he would explain that if the player 'thought' the unobtainable note strongly enough and tried hard to look as if he 'was' playing it, the audience would never know it was missing."
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