Orchestra rehearsal (Karl Valentin)

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Movie
Original title Orchestral rehearsal
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1933
length 22 minutes
Rod
Director Carl Lamac
occupation

The orchestra rehearsal is a short film by Karl Valentin from 1933. It is a sketch based on the play Tingeltangel .

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The orchestra rehearsal begins with a dialogue between two musicians who initially complain about the Kapellmeister and his incompetence, until he appears behind Karl Valentin's back. At first he calmly complains about him, and when he notices his appearance, he tries to find the excuse that he is not talking about the conductor, but about his own brother. When the conductor said he had no brother at all, he replied that it was about the sister. Thereupon Valentin prepares his notes and his instrument very laboriously and meekly.

He points out to the conductor for the first time that his bow tie is hanging down ("The tie is down on you"). A short play on words with the words "you", "inside" and "outside" follows.

Now the Kapellmeister wants to begin, but Valentin has heard the word “break” somewhere and asks for one, in which he puts into the Kapellmeister's mouth that he has called for a break.

In response to the conductor's statement that the musicians lacked “ rhythm ”, Valentin spoke up: Although he didn't know it, he thought he knew the brother of the rhythm. The misunderstanding is cleared up, however, as Valentin mistook him for a person named Reisberger, a short, tall person with a dark white beard.

The orchestra rehearsal begins with a march. While lying on the chair, Valentin plays the trumpet because the music director has placed the music across the desk. After the Kapellmeister breaks off so that Valentin can sit up straight again, the latter interrupts the rehearsal again shortly afterwards, but says it is nothing. After a few bars of music, Valentin interrupts again by holding up the trumpet, as he is now sure that his suspenders have been torn off, which he immediately pulls out of his tailcoat.

Now the march finally begins, with the musician beating the big drum into the general break, which is criticized by both Valentin and the Kapellmeister (who in turn criticizes Valentin's comment “Rindviech”).

The march now continues until the next interruption by the conductor, at which Valentin mumbles something incomprehensible into the trumpet. Even after three repetitions, in which Valentin tries to articulate himself more clearly through the trumpet placed on his lips, the conductor does not understand him, whereupon he knocks the trumpet away and asks him to repeat it again. Valentin says that his bow tie is hanging down ("The tie ..."). During the next interruption, Valentin bumps into the mouthpiece and accuses the conductor of conducting too jaggedly.

At the end of the march, the orchestra begins a version of Hoffmann's stories , Valentin now plays the violin . At first he confuses the piece with Hoffmann's drops . Before they begin to play, Valentin silently points out the bow tie to the conductor with the violin bow.

The musicians begin, but repeat the first bars in a tour, because they have discovered a repeat sign and do not dare to continue playing. In the dispute over this, the Kapellmeister and Valentin begin to fight each other with baton and fiddle bow, whereby the Kapellmeister destroys the notes he wrote himself by carelessly using his baton.

You now decide to rehearse the Poet-and-Peasant Overture, but the “Paukist” is missing. A discussion ensues as to whether or not one can see an absent person. Valentin now has to play the kettledrum and bass drum. After a discussion about the mood of the timpani, which is not out of tune, but the discord of the Tschinelle lying on it , which, although clearly recognizable, is only determined after a long exchange of words, the famous story follows by chance . Afterwards, the conductor is informed several times that the fly is hanging down. This is followed by the overture , in which Valentin overslept all the inserts, sniffing in between, cleaning his glasses, pointing the bandmaster about the tie and repeatedly beating the drum or the kettledrum.

Trivia

A peculiarity of the old Munich language is striking here: the Kapellmeister wears a bow tie, which Valentin always calls a "tie". In fact, at that time, this was the usual name in the Munich-speaking area, while a tie was called a "tie" according to today's understanding.

In the music video “K2 - Der Berg ruft” from the band K2 from 1994, several Valentin quotes from the orchestral rehearsal can be heard, such as “The braces have been torn off”, as well as related to the rhythm: “What's his name? I don't even know him - I think I know his brother ”.

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