Klarinet Archive - Posting 000370.txt from 1997/12

From: SEAN TALBOT <talbotse12@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: Putting Together Recitals
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 09:09:10 -0500

First of all you can go through and try to put together a recital on your
own with help from your lesson teacher. Get a room.......either a church
or someplace in your school that you could hold you and a crowd.....work
up 4 or 5 pieces with an accompianist....advertise advertise advertise and
put on your own recital or get with a friend and share the recital. You
could probably do a couple of clarinet pieces and a couple of tuba
pieces. (yes I checked out your web sight) Finding or creating performance
opportunities can be and interesting task. Many areas have a wide range of
community groups or music union bands or something to play in that is at
least fun if it isn't challenging. Put together a chamber group and play the
malls or special occasions like Breakfast with Santa that we have here in
a couple of days. When I was in high school there was a small community
college that put together a band and we got a wide range of players from
All-State calaber high school students like myself and my friends, but teachers,
area music educators and music students from nearby Northern Illinois University.
That was a great group......maybe there is something like this. Ask your
band director and other music educators in the area what performance
opportunities have they found that you could get in on. Good luck.

Sean Talbot
Music educaiton student
University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
talbotse12@-----.edu
http://www.geocites.com/vienna/strasse/2859