tadpole-596-918256 Review of Johann Mouse

Johann Mouse (1953)

Some reviewers have argued that it is incongruous . . .

[8/10 · 15 August 2022]

. . . for a concert pianist to be tempted to interrupt his performance for the sake of consuming a rodent, or any other living critter, for that matter. However, my personal experience is that orchestra people are a pretty s-q-u-i-r-r-e-l-y bunch. I would not put it past most of them to scarf down a vole or chipmunk mid-concert, especially if it's summer and they're playing in a rotting band shell. I was expected to carry on a family musical tradition, and had to play the violin in a school orchestra from fifth through tenth grades. It just got to be too much for me when I noticed the First Violin, aka the "orchestra leader," gulping down a stray gerbil someone had let loose during a high school musical--I think it was CATS. I immediately switched to the Vocational track, and I never saw such outrages occurring during Auto Shop.