Great Concert Disasters of the Past!

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• English as she is spoke
• LOST ALL MY MUSIC DURING CONCERT...
• THE MISS AMERICA PARADE
• Elvis Ain't Worth It...
• oh no forgot my trunks!!!!
• 5 shows of zany mishaps in one!
• Re: The Bangkok Recital
• Embarassing moment for Lynn Harrell
• The Smashed Mello...
• A Multi-Disaster Conservatory Concert
• Embarrassment Suffered and Averted
• Hearing Aid Doesn't Aid
• F#-F#-B sting
• Stars and Stripes Disaster
• I knocked the screen over...
• the real truth about Academic Festival
• OYC2K Tour: Is that your impression of Bach?
• Wait... THAT's not supposed to happen...
• Teenagers and the Philadelphia Orchestra
• Daily Telegraph clue
• Soiled Sacrements
• don't make fun of the bass clarinets
• No Way to Kill a Tenor!
• Revenge for a horrible band instructor
• All Strung Out
• Shame!
• Wrong note Fury
• A Conductor's Fury
• The Water-bone
• Opening Night Sport?
• A Head Bangin' Good Time
• A "Hole" Lot More Than I Bargained For!
• Tymps vs the flute player
• "black-out"
• The not-so-smart "percussion"
• Just nudge me when it's my turn
• Does anyone have a Kleenex?
• Reputation Goes Out the Window
• Sprinkler Hell
• The Lady Slims the Blues
• highheels are NOT a good thing!
• Ladies and Gentlemen, Wagner Has Left the Building
• The Conra-alto Clarinet From HELL
• TAKE ME TO THE HOSPITAL PLEASE!!!
• The sax section sux
• Trouble in the bass section...
• More than just a musical tear...
• Oops not again!!!!
• The fire alarm was Despised...
• Disco Damage!
• The Musicians Vs. The Sprinklers
• A tale of a willing organist.
• Backwards into a Building
• Daily Telegraph Quick Crossword puns
• Riser fun!
• Cell phones at the opera...
• Organist's Wedding Stuff-Up
• The Duck in the Bandroom!!!!!!!!!
• This Opera Really Bugs Me!
• Even The Weather Gods Were Against Us....
• "You Have The Right To Remain Silent....."
• The longest drum roll I ever saw or heard of.....
• The musical world breathed easier as we played our last ever concert together.....
• Stick With Football - Band Is Too Dangerous...
• I use to play Clarient utill I was told I had to much....
• A little distraction....
• Whoops! They've started!
• "The Flashing Soprano"
• Country pick up gig
• Reeds do go boom
• Bogies on stage!
• Solo played solo
• Head banging with Judas Priest
• how the mellophone triped
• Hey Baby, it's Ludwig Van
• The Slippery Slope
• The Comatous Chorister
• How! Now! A Rat!
• One actor's Prescience-
• the day pilate didn't come
• Pops Concert Jollies
• How not to stage a rock concert.
• organizor stumps the soprano
• Bad to time leave your post
• New Model Army - and others
• Power goes out twice at a Rush concert
• Give and recieve
• Emembarrasing moment
• Why the back row of a band or orchestra should NEVER be on risers...
• Down to the last second.
• Who would say that?
• Entry qualifications.
• Spit valve worry
• the piano concert that went horribly wrong
• Contra Marching Catastrophy
• "Bubble Head" Trips at competition!
• one loose screw spoils the whole parade.
• Bass Clarinet blues
• I can't march--I haven't even played for 10 years
  Heels over
• Sibelius 1st Symphony Harpist's Nightmare
• floor caved in
• My big break..what second chairs were made for..
• Herts Gilbert and Sullivan society (England)
• Local Music Societies Programme foulups.
• Classical Guitar Recital.
• trombone trouble
• Never use "Smoke Machines"!!
  Well Duh!
• Handel Horror
• Ouch
• bare naked baby on loose
• CATCH ME!!!!!!
• Never trust the stage you play on
• Touring isn't all fun and games...
• Fire alarms and band festivals don't mix.
• insult and instigate with words
• It's a bassoon-playing stand catcher
• Ormandy sayings, www.McFarlandDoubleReed.com.
• NEVER CHEW GUM AT A CONCERT!
• Super Half Time Disaster
• Graduation Disaster
• So, when's dinner?
• The Bouncing Clarinet
• Rockin' Basses
• Doesn't the Bass Clarinet have a solo?
• When the show is only 8 minutes long, you just can't be stuck in mud!
• Harvester!
• SEX Only attracts people
• Catastrophe Occurs During the 1812 Overture
• Why Middle School Ensembles Rehearse So Much
• A Great Catch
• Downstage is the direction the piano rolls
• Sax Problems
• I got the spirit of my band director!
• The arrested soloist.
• The Projectile Drumstick
• CHURCH SERVICE OR CHOIR PRACTICE?
• First Impressions
• nadando en el bosque
• Star Spangled Banner with 2 tempos
• THe Christmas concert from hell
• Where did I leave my tuner?
• The Lullaby on Speed
• The Band with Abandonment Issues
• What makes a band director...
• Woopsy
• The trombone that farted!!
• The Clarinet Section That Did Not Behave
• The Bassoon that fell
• Rockin Robin really rocked the house
• suicidal opera singer is resurected. repeatedly.
• The Never-Ending Sonata
• A Van Halen Fiasco
• IT'S RAINING....BOTTLES??!!
• the ultimate FUBAR
• THE HOT CONCERT
• The World's Deadest Drummer
• A Very Moving Tale
• Brahms and the Extra Percussion
• Interrupting Colonel Gabriel
• A minor incident during my audition at Indiana University.
• Watch whose instrument you take!
• Another "Hallelujah" Chorus faux pas
• Concert Disaster Page Disaster
• Stockhausen
• Richard Baker's moment of decision.
• The teacher seeks revenge
• Those blood capsules look so real!
• The REALLY Quiet English Horn Solo
• The great Pablo Casal's first recital
• The trombone slide from hell.
• Magic Flute Flood
• The English Horn solo that was not ot be.
• It wasn't Casals! It was Sir Thomas Beecham!
• PIANO OVER WENDY
• THE CLASSICAL MISHAP
• here we come
• An embarrassing moment to remember!
• The Ultimate bad stage experience
• You Won our award.....
• Foggy Camalot
• Almost died on stage
• The Roasted Swan responds!
• THE GREAT "OKLAHOMA" DISASTER
• Definition of Hemiola
• What time is it?
• Pablo Casals in action during a Masters Class.
• Leaving a Job with (?)Style
• This one's about a gross violist.
• Cicada conducts concert.
• It never fails...
• Counting Time -A Performer's Disaster
• What in the heck is wrong with this picture?
• The great Jazz disaster
• Stand up!!!
• The Lost People
• The Green Day concert fiasco!
• Why don't we get drunk and..........
• what you get when the page turner doesn't know your piece
• Soloist sings wrong song
• Beethoven Head Banger
• bad experience with Sex Pistols concert in Rio de Janeiro
• Smoke on the Water
• Swinging Chandeliers
• What happens when you hire a "friend" to help with security
• Cinderella leaves the ball early.
• Greenhouse Effect Chain Reaction - Show Orchestra
• One less bass clarinet.
• A REAL TRIP
• Music Knows No Gender.
• The Oboe Solo That Was Not To Be
• Piano Head Banger
• Flautist in Ineptitude Shocker!
• The tenor turns out to be base.
• Disaster by Design; Cage II
• Shkolnik's Performance of the ScriabinPiano Concerto
• Tink!!!
• solor high and downplay
• NO CELESTE!!
• The Green Day Redux
• Things you shouldn't try under any circumstances! i.e., DUH!
• Flute Train