Klarinet Archive - Posting 000340.txt from 1995/05

From: Frances M Robinson <intm5@-----.UK>
Subj: Re: Spites & slights
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 06:38:15 -0400

That is NOTHING.
Sorry for the strong tone, but whilst we earn NOTHING apart from free
orange juice at concerts etc., our conductor must be one of the bravest
people on earth. You are all probably aware of the curious proportioning
of the school orchestra, and being the last of 10 clarinets I tend to
spend rather more time making silly comments than playing. Anyway, our
entire brass section consists of 2 trumpets and one of them considers
himself superior to everyone else on earth. When we were re4hearsi ng
'march to the scaffold', he spent the whole rehearsal arguing with
conductor x that the writer in the symphonie fantastique was on acid, not
opium. Also when the trumpets get the tune, he goes 'can't play that,
even though he could. This is just ANNOYING, he's got a real problem.
I am friends with the other trumpet player(really a cornet, but it
doesn't matter) and we always sit together and swop parts, anyway, it was
march from carmen and I was trying to double-tongue the cornet part and
she was trying to do clarinet 2 and it went WRONG, because I couldn't go
t-t-t-t-t-ddddd-t fast enough. Ha.
Another of my friends, a gifted first violin, bought in a copy of 'more!'
which is a teen magazine for people who are perverts and anyway,
everybody was reading 'position of the week(one for you, Dan and Jeremy)
and it caused comments, i.e second violins going 'oooh thats
disgusting'(because they have no life) and trumpet player x going 'oh
I've done that before.' anyway, we were all reading the true story about
this girl who fancied.... and by the ti me it got round to the
flutesconductor x went PSYCHO haha. We were all terrified.
Then second violin x got some space rocks(sweets that jump around your
mouth and go POP) and gave them to the flutes and the flutes couldn't
play, it was well funny. Another time, cornet player x lost her
mouthpiece and had to play with a euphonium mouthpiece that would only
play fffffff and we were swopping pieces. It got to 'berceuse' and it is
marked ppp and she tried to play my part and kind of went phrrtht and it
sounded like a whoopee cushion. coductor x goes 'the baby's just died'
and we couldn't plat for the whole movement we were laughing so much.

Well There are plenty more where tose came from-lets here more fun rehearsals

Frances
B flat and proud of it!!