Show na THE JOKER have you ever stood on a street corner on a rainy cold night wait ing for someone to meet youa do you remember how unpleasant it was and how much you wished the friend would come comee many years ago in vienna a young man stood on a corner corne r on just such a rainy cold night but he was much worse off than you no job no money and no one to meet him franz joseph had been a boy soprano in st stephen stephens s church until that very day but now his voice had changed and he couldn coulden t sing any more so out he wen went t on to the street of course he did like to play jokes and he used to tease the boys in front of him un til finally the choirmaster had had enough so here he was with no supper no bed for the night and no money As it happened one of his friends finally came by and asked franz to come home with him he too was very poor and all that he could give franz was a little attic room to live in but thai that was better than nothing franz joseph thought franz joseph was as anxious to be come a great musician without money how could he take lessons 7 he couldn coulden t so he taught himself from books pretty soon he found some pupils and he began to corn com pose music that people liked so life became somewhat easier in those days long ago the rich noblemen used to have fine large houses on their estates and they kept their own musicians to enter tain them in the evenings one of these men count est heard about franz josep hired him to live at his c home to compose music f and direct his orchestra E B spent the rest of his life music for the I 1 such a good kind man t was often called papa B franz joseph never lost I 1 of a joke and he used t them on the count and his i one of his pieces was wr that one by one the mil nit r would mould pick up their msty s and walk away finally on 01 was left then ha too blew candle took his music and 0 and left the stage leaving 31 ty h in another of his e has all the musicians su play with a loud bang g gi surprise as he called it E ei day the symphony is call cal surprise symphony beca this little joke oke franz joseph haydn bee bec very famous man was re every where he was even bo i to go to london and give sn his works this he was ha h do and he wrote some synirie h especially for the trip he wrote over one aundre I 1 phonies altogether besides C one hundred string quartets great many piano sonatas the first house to be b bi huntington creek was i t room log cabin built by I 1 ti lemmon on his homestead n fall of 1876 |