Klarinet Archive - Posting 000354.txt from 1995/05

From: Tom Izzo <tji@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Spites & slights
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 06:38:29 -0400

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On Tue, 9 May 1995, Frances M Robinson wrote:

> That is NOTHING.
> 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
10 CLARINETS--WAY TOO MANY in any size orchestra/2 trpts is enough.
Need the Cornet to play a trumpet, though.
> entire brass section consists of 2 trumpets and one of them considers

> opium. Also when the trumpets get the tune, he goes 'can't play that,
What do you mean "He Goes, 'can't play that"/Goes where?

>even though he could. This is just ANNOYING, he's got a real problem.
Sounds like there are problems all around here!

> 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!!
>
Sounds like this orchestra has a LOT of growing up to do

Tom