Klarinet Archive - Posting 000192.txt from 1994/09

From: Stephen Cranefield <stephen@-----.NZ>
Subj: Glissandi
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 01:32:59 -0400

I've just been told by our orchestra's manager that we might be
playing Rhapsody in Blue next year. This is a little worrying as one
glaring hole in my technique is that I haven't a clue how to do a
jazz-style glissando (or at least, not when I want to!). Can anyone
offer any advice on this, or is it simply a matter of battling away
until something finally 'clicks'?

By the way, I recently saw in a book of "venery" (i.e. mass nouns such
as "a murder of crows") that the correct term for a group of clarinets
(or clarinettists) is "a glissando of clarinets". Spare a thought for
bassoonists who (according to this book) collectively form a
"flatulence". [ According to the book, during Victorian times such
expressions once coined and published were considered the only correct
way of referring to these groupings of animals, objects or people ].

- Stephen

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