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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000030.txt from 2003/03

From: Guy Mallery <wa2msu@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Playing contrabassoon
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 02:07:11 -0500

--- Nat Echols <nat@-----.edu> wrote:
> And I've seen many people (myself included) show up to rehearsal
>with contra in hand and end up sitting through the entire session
>without playing a note.

Howdy,

I actually "played" a piece this season in which the contra
part had *zero* notes (Corigiano "Promenade Overture" 1981)...
Walked out on stage(on cue)...Got a nice (contrabassoon) write-up
in the review. <grin>

Regards,
Guy Mallery
(stockton, ca, usa)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contrabassoon
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/frenchbassoon