Klarinet Archive - Posting 000096.txt from 1996/08

From: "Scott D. Morrow" <SDM@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: The clarinet polka forever!
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:08:54 -0400

>Dan,
> I play it all the time!! Of course, how many other clarinetists
>play in folk bands for dancers? My South-Serbian Gypsy band plays for
>international folk dacing all the time and sometimes we throw in othere
>stuff like a polka. I agree that young players should know about this
>part of their heritage. Too bad we've all become so damned serious and
>can't bring ourselves to play these lovely, if slightly corny, chestnuts.
>
>Fred Jacobowitz
>Clarinet/Sax Instructor, Peabody Preparatory
>

I started playing polkas because they were in my father's old
Kammen book (from which I learned klezmer). Polkas are fun and challenging
- in fact, when I was learning sax, I considered myself "fluent" only after
I could play the polkas on it!

-Scott

Scott D. Morrow
Department of Biochemistry
School of Hygiene and Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
(410)-955-3631

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