Klarinet Archive - Posting 000812.txt from 1998/08

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bad bass audition: part II
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 10:09:21 -0400

At 12:02 PM 8/27/98 -0500, you wrote:
> Uh, I uh, got the principal spot in the top ensemble........I
>don't know what to say. Maybe it was the horn. Thanks to everyone who

Hahahaha. Sounds like the LeBlanc promo where Ricardo Morales ascribes
much of his success to playing a LeBlanc Opus at his audition for the Met
orchestra. Like if he'd shown up with a top-drawer Buffet or Selmer, he'd
have squeaked and flatted his way through the audition and James Levine
would have told him "Don't call us, we'll call you":-). Face it, man, it
was not the horn: you must've played the hell out of your audition pieces,
and you're to be congratulated!

Now...what kind of horn WAS it?

Ken

"The East River. But it was not a river at all. Merely a column of water
connecting the upper harbor to the Sound. Yet everyone called it a river.
They chose not to think about it. They clung to the surface of things."
--Peter Quinn, "Banished Children of Eve"
Ken Wolman kwolman@-----.net
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