Klarinet Archive - Posting 000345.txt from 1997/12

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Aids to performance
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 09:08:45 -0500

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Date: Sun, 07 Dec 1997 15:43:49 -0500
From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.com>
Organization: Sneezy
Subject: Re: aids to performance
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Edinger/Gilman wrote:
> Seriously, though, I have found that even the smallest amount of alcoho=
l
> consumption adversely affects my playing for hours and I assiduously
> avoid wine for dinner on any night I plan to practice or rehearse (and
> I@-----. Any other takes on the effects of alcohol on
> playing, positive or negative?

Aha! I take it you're not of the "French School" of clarinet playing,
otherwise you'd never get to practice or rehearse :)

Hmmm ... Maybe that glass of wine _defines_ the French School ...

Time to open up my bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau I picked up and
quaff a bit before my recital this evening. If I drink the whole
bottle I may become "double-blind"! All in the name of pseudo-science,
of course!!
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