Klarinet Archive - Posting 001248.txt from 1998/07

From: <Maestro645@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Clarinet Column
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 00:08:24 -0400

In a message dated 7/28/98 8:49:44 PM Pacific Daylight Time, cegc@-----.net
writes:

<< Well, I think it is always important to consider your audience when you
are going to perform something. Was the majority of the audience peers
of parents? Could you have found something to play that both would have
enjoyed? Also, the piece is a bit long, so maybe something shorter may
have been appropriate. >>

Actually, we made big cuts. The 9 minute, 30 second piece was cut down to six
minutes. and the audience was, I guess, half adults and half students. And
my director wanted me to perform this particular piece because of two reaons:
1) he made a band transcription for the accompaniment, and
2) it was the piece I played for All-State auditions when i got in.
So, what's a guy to do?
Chris Hoffman

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