{"id":768,"date":"2017-11-02T16:05:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monikakwiatkowska.eu\/?p=768"},"modified":"2017-11-02T16:12:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T15:12:43","slug":"chekhov-doublebass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monikakwiatkowska.eu\/pl\/chekhov-doublebass\/","title":{"rendered":"Chekhov, John Cleese and the Double Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Musicians and their instruments turn out to be a great pretext for expressing feelings, emotions and dilemmas of characters in novels, movies and other forms of art.<\/h4>\n

We all well know the monologue „The Double Bass”\u00a0by Patrick\u00a0S\u00fcskind<\/strong>. The bittersweet\u00a0story of a lonely musician who dreams of love to a young singer. He talks about characteristics of a double bass and it’s role in the orchestra but in the same time\u00a0reveals his frustrations associated with it. My copy of „The Double Bass” I received years ago from my first double bass teacher, Mr. Leszek Kaufman, at the end of my education in music school in Gda\u0144sk. I like it a lot and for sure will write about it more in the future. But today, let me present you a different story!<\/p>\n

Recently I got to know another tale with double bass as a hero. Anton Chekhov’s „Romance with a Double Bass”<\/strong> from 1886 is a short story about the double bassist, Smychkov, who shows up too early at the rehearsal before the betrothal ball in the country house of prince Bibulov. He decides to kill time bathing in the river. While swimming\u00a0he notes Princess on the shore… As a result of funny accidents they both are\u00a0left without clothes so Smychkov decided to help Princess hiding her in the double bass case and carring to Bibulov’s house.\u00a0I encourage you to read<\/a> the whole original story!<\/p>\n

Moreover on YouTube you can find\u00a0a\u00a0silent short comedy based od Chekov’s story filmed in Russia in 1911! Directed by Kai Hansen and wrote by Czeslaw Sabinski was\u00a0the first film adaptation of Chekhov’s writing<\/strong>:<\/p>\n