Klarinet Archive - Posting 000784.txt from 1998/08

From: <MorgyJr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bad Audition (on bass clarinet)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 10:08:53 -0400

I just have to respond to this one.

I hope my clarinet teacher is not on the listserv... but if he is...

I remember those days of going into clarinet lessons ( I also am an avid bass
player, BUT I wanted to remain proficient on soprano, so I took lessons on
soprano) and I could break my neck practicing, and come in and my college
teacher would say "Well, that piece is still in its embryonic stages, isn't
it?"

Sounds like the person for whomever you played is in dire need of a sabattical
or in need of having tenure revoked as a wake up call. Remember, students are
what keep a university going, without students paying that astronomical
tuition, universities cannot exist! (I remember when full time tuition was
$600.00 per sememster at the University of Kansas; those were the good 'ol
days when a college education was almost affordable and a scholarship actually
made a dent in the tuition.)

Anyway, vibrato was also a pet peeve of this teacher and I know a fabulous
young clarinetist who auditioned with Debussy's Premiere Rhapsodie for a music
scholarship as an entering freshman and used vibrato because that is what her
teacher, a very fine clarinetist as well, taught her to do. He raked her over
the coals and told her it was the worst he had ever heard her play. Go
figure. She got a sizeable scholarship, anyway.

You will learn to be flexible. May you reeds be ever responsive and warm!!

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