Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch
Cecil Was Plenty Miffed About Being Bumped From First Chair and Wasn’t Afraid To Let the Conductor Know It, 1624
Oil on canvas
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The conductor condemned Cecil’s playing/
He said it was downright dismaying!/
“Although-I must say/
When you’re playing Grofé/
That I do hear jackasses braying!”///
Said Cecil,”the Grand Canyon Suite”/
In your hands is a feeble tweet./
Throw away your baton/
And the shoes you have on-/
You ought to conduct with your feet.”
Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here (archived if necessary), here, here, here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page.
/// He’s decided that he cannot play
where the quartet’s appearing today.
He’d played first violin
in Madrid and Berlin,
but tonight’s venue isn’t OK.
/// Violinist laughs— tries to explain:
“I can’t bow ‘cause my wrist has a sprain.”
He’s not really in pain,
but, in Moscow? Insane
to wear colors supporting Ukraine!
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/// Violin fans were sad and dismayed
by the way this musician’s portrayed.
There were wrong notes and gaffes
‘cause he played it for laughs.
The musician’s played by David Spade.