Klarinet Archive - Posting 000040.txt from 1996/05

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fredj@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Frustration and Starting Over
Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 15:17:18 -0400

Jeremy,
Sure doesn't describe me! I'm woefully out of shape. Also, how do
you explain people like Phil Meyers (principal horn with the NY
Philharmonic) or Larry Sobol (clarinetist with a few recordings out
there). These are both quite obese people. I think blowing pover has more
to do with having learned and internalized the proper beathing mechanics.

Fred Jacobowitz
Clarinet/Sax instructor, Peabody Preparatory

On Wed, 1 May 1996, Jeremy Alexander Yager wrote:

> On Apr 30, 11:32pm, Greg Baker wrote:
> > Subject: Re: Frustration and Starting Over
>
> On air support:
>
> Having been almost exclusively a bass clarinet player until my junior
> year in HS, I found that when I started Bb clarinet again that the
> air power I had built up as a bass player helped my clarinet playing
> a great deal both in articulation and in tone quality and clarity.
>
> Now after having gotten into distance-running shape *again* this
> semester (I ran cross country in HS) I find that, once again, my
> clarinet playing has improved markedly with the (re)introduction of
> the extra chest power into the equation.
>
> In my experience w/ professional wind players, it seems that a great
> deal of them are often in great physical shape--my band director and
> former clarinet teacher are both distance runners (and married now
> *grin*) and my current clarinet teacher was(is?) a swimmer. Is this
> a general thing or just a statistical anomaly?
>
> Recovering from exams,
> Jeremy A Yager
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Jeremy A "Odin" Yager -- musician, poet & future engineer || EUPTS==67
> NC State University || Materials Engineering || jayager@-----.edu
> "Engineers know how to do it *every* way"
> --Matthew W. Damick
>