Klarinet Archive - Posting 000864.txt from 1997/11

From: rrozinek@-----.net
Subj: Re: two is company, three's a ... city band
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 19:10:47 -0500

> Bill Hausmann wrote:
> We get frustrated sometimes by
> these deficiencies, but they are infinitely preferable to not having the
> opportunity to play at all. And that is usually the only other choice
> available.

The other side of this equation is that people enjoy listening to
community bands. We play to audiences sometimes less than half the
size of the band, but sometimes to as many as 500 people. The
audience ebbs and flows at the "Iowa Municipal Band Festival", but
they aren't all relatives, they came to hear the bands, and some
hard core will sit there from 11AM until 7PM to hear every single
one. When its cold and rainy on a regular weekly concert day and
there are 200 people sitting wrapped in blankets waiting for the show
you must be giving them something they enjoy.
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Russ Rozinek, Maxwell, Iowa