Klarinet Archive - Posting 000604.txt from 1997/05

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: Paris, anyone. -- and England too???
Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 07:21:07 -0400

The British Clarinet and Saxophone Society conference is in July, at
Northampton. I forget the date -- but on the face of things, you might be
around to look in on it. Perhaps you could then tell people what's wrong
with it; CASS doesn't seem to be in the best of health. (I'll follow up
with the dates, if someone else doesn't do it first).
Roger Shilcock
(I'll only be there if I think I can afford it).

On Fri, 23 May 1997 OLIVER@-----.EDU wrote:

> Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 23:17:27 -0800 (PST)
> From: OLIVER@-----.EDU
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
> To: KLARINET@-----.us
> Subject: Paris, anyone.
>
> Against my better judgment I'll divulge the fact that
> I'll be working at l'Institut National des Recherches
> Agronomiques in Versailles the month of June and living
> at La Cite Universitaire in Paris. The last time
> I was there I took my clarinet but couldn't find a soul
> willing to play duets with a rank amateur. I didn't even get
> a response to my note to the student from the U. of Texas living
> at La Fondation des Etats Unis and on a clarinet
> scholarship for a year. That's what nudged me toward getting
> into MUSIC-X via computer in a big way.
>
> When one visits Paris one really ought not to
> spend all one's time working 8-5 then playing clarinet in
> a dormitory room every evening, but if a single one of you folks
> says, "Sure, I'll be in Paris in June, let's play some duets,"
> I'll bring my clarinet. Otherwise it will be just
> excess baggage. Still, a photo of some itinerant clarinetists
> at Trocadero (collection hat on pavement) and the one of
> the sole clarinetist at Yosemite would make a nice pair. . .
>
> 8-)
>
> For you professionals among us, I don't want you to
> be offended by what I write. I know some of you on this
> list earn your living playing clarinet, so my whimsy
> is bound to rub some of you the wrong way.
>
> Mark Twain once wrote a piece (maybe it was in "Innocents
> Abroad") about members of the aristocracy getting summer
> jobs driving stage coaches in Hyde Park rather as a lark,
> but recoiling from the horrible thought of actually doing
> something like that for a living. Playing the clarinet
> is for me that lark because I had to make the hard choice
> long ago for reasons connected with limited talent
> and motivation I would just never be able to cut it with
> you professionals. So I beg your indulgence.
>
> Paris DOES beckon, in any case. . .
>
> Oh, yeah, and I'll meet my wife in London where we'll stay
> in a self-catering apartment for a week starting around July 1
> and then drive to the Cotswolds where we'll stay
> a week and then on to Yorkshire for a week, so if there's
> a community band that needs a second (or third) clarinet
> for a rehearsal sometime in the interval July 1-23, let's
> see what we can do. (My wife doesn't know I'm writing
> this. Whata mistaka ta maka.)
>
> Oliver
>

   
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