Schubert's Unfinished

[Black Knight]

I was at a formal party for us who have finished my high school this year and there was a guy giving a speech. He talked about a lot of things, including Schubert's unfinished symphony. He told a story about a guy who was sent to a performance of this work and was supposed to check the effectiveness of the symphony orchestra. What he found out, was:

1. The four oboists seemed to have nothing to do throughout large parts of the symphony. They should be fired and their work should be distributed for the rest of the orchestra.

2. There seemed to be 40 violins often playing the same note. The number should be reduced to one and the loudness could be achieved by using an amplifier.

3. There seemed to be used a lot of energy to play sixteenth notes. All notes should be rounded off to the nearest eight, which would also enable nonprofessionals with lesser wages to play the symphony.

4. If Schubert would have taken these simple points into consideration, he might have had time to finish his symphony.


Cracked us all up. 

[head-case]

I was at a formal party for us who have finished my high school this year and there was a guy giving a speech. He talked about a lot of things, including Schubert's unfinished symphony. He told a story about a guy who was sent to a performance of this work and was supposed to check the effectiveness of the symphony orchestra. What he found out, was:

1. The four oboists seemed to have nothing to do throughout large parts of the symphony. They should be fired and their work should be distributed for the rest of the orchestra.

2. There seemed to be 40 violins often playing the same note. The number should be reduced to one and the loudness could be achieved by using an amplifier.

3. There seemed to be used a lot of energy to play sixteenth notes. All notes should be rounded off to the nearest eight, which would also enable nonprofessionals with lesser wages to play the symphony.

4. If Schubert would have taken these simple points into consideration, he might have had time to finish his symphony.


Cracked us all up. 

Unfortunately you left out a crucial part of the joke, the person attending the symphony is supposed to be an efficiency analyst from an HMO.  The standard version of the joke (which I suspect is familiar to many here) is posted here:

http://home.capecod.net/~tpanitz/ejoke/j19.html