Klarinet Archive - Posting 000217.txt from 1997/01

From: Barry Kruse <bkruse@-----.COM>
Subj: Where to find playing partners
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 11:51:41 -0500

There's a good community music resource on the web at:

http://www.io.com/~rboerger/community.html

It lists a lot of community groups from all over the country.

I don't know much about the Maryland side of DC, but Fairfax County is just
teeming with groups.

They're not always easy to find but just keep talking to everyone you can.
Pester the guys at the local music store. Call the band director at the local
high school. Is there a community center where you live? Pester the local
librarian. If you have a neighborhood paper, call and pester them.

I use the word pester a bit facetiously. What I want to get across is not to be
shy about networking. Have fun looking and let us know what you find.

Barry

Subject:
Author: "Schoendorf, Kenneth C." <kxs2@-----.GOV> at INTERNET
Date: 1/17/97 9:47 AM

Hi, all. This is my first posting to this list, though I have been hovering
on the fringes for a bit. I fall into that seemingly not uncommon category
of those who played with some degree of proficiency through their teenage
years or early 20s, stopped for whatever reason, and decided to start
blowing again a couple of decades later. I've been re-playing for
approximately 4 months now. Accompanying the expected technical problems
(flabby embouchure, uninspiring tone, creaky fingers) is an even more
frustrating one, a lack of playing companions. I'm willing to play anything
from duets to orchestral music to pop tunes, but have not been able to find
a group. I wash regularly and brush my teeth, so that shouldn't be too much
of a problem. Does anyone have advice as to how to go about finding playing
partners? Either general ideas or hints regarding opportunities specific to
the Washington, DC/University of MD area would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much.

---Ken Schoendorf