Klarinet Archive - Posting 001213.txt from 1998/09

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Marching band
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:45:37 -0400

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Matthew A Cullen wrote:
> The marching band experience is like none other, and I wouldnt exchange
> the experience for any other... The fac tthat the music is combined with
> athletic ability also happens to command much much more respect with the
> "Unclean Masses" than thos who sit in chairs and move their fingers.
> Matt

Yeah......I guess so. Those poor slobs in the Chicago Symphony, New York
Phil, etc. are really jealous of that experience! I know that I really
miss marching on a field and think of it every time I have to go play
Mahler or Stravinsky in a concert hall..........nothing excites me as much
as a bunch of sweaty bodies striving to play the fantastic strains of that
special, custom arrangement of Also Sprach Zarathrustra (commonly known as
Theme from 2001 to most high school students) or the Hindemith Symphonic
Metamorphosis - arranged for that really cool percussion feature! The
steel drum part really made me view Hindemith differently!

You know, I've yearned to move the "unclean masses" (whatever the heck
that is) for years - now all I have to do is convince those suffering
souls in my ensemble to give up Holst, Grainger, Schuller, Hindemith,
Persichetti, and numerous other average composers to perform the wonderful
works of Bocook, Higgins in their most athletic way on the field. Maybe I
could even convince the public that such a feat is superhuman and requires
musicianship!

Thanks for setting me straight on that Matt.

Roger Garrett
IWU

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