Klarinet Archive - Posting 001188.txt from 1998/09

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Marching band and (Concert Band also)
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:24:47 -0400

>Sure, any ensemble can
>work up a number after 3 months of practice (if it is within the
>capabilities of its members)! Obviously, a great deal of attention should
>be devoted to contest numbers, but high school students would also benefit
>from being exposed to a wide variety of music.
>
>Is this something others have noticed as well? Do you think it is standard
>practice or unique to my area?

I'll guess standard because that's what my son is doing in high school
right now, with marching band. They work up three different numbers,
music, choreography, solos, etc., and hone them into competition pieces as
well as things to be played between halves of a football game. There is
often a "theme" of some kind.

It gets pretty old after awhile. However, the same group moves indoors
after football season for concert band, and there the repertoire is a bit
more diverse.

Ken

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self, nourish them, and then channel their energies into another direction,
he redeems himself because redemption means to salvage oneself, and each man
does this whenever he restructures the 'noes' of his life under the
commanding impulse of a new 'yes'."
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