Klarinet Archive - Posting 001225.txt from 1998/09

From: pollyg@-----. Gulakowski)
Subj: Re: [kl] Marching band
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 12:24:22 -0400

Oh Roger! When I was in college, women were NOT permitted to be in the
marching band. I was a clarinet major and a band geek, but mourn the
fact that I never got to march college. My high school marched grades
7-12 so I did 6 years there. I was laughed at and ridiculed during
college for my love of marching band and there wasn't a single course
that I could take where I could learn marching techniques - it was only
avaliable to marching band members. Thank goodness that has changed. I
will not, however, exchange my marching for concert ensemble for soloing
etc serious music. I WANT IT ALL.
Are you "serious musicians" still sniggering at me after all these years?
Tongue in cheek - I got over that about 7 years ago.

Paulette
Live a life of EXCLAMATION not explanation!
Old clarinetists never die, they just get reed-ic-u-lous!

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998 20:27:27 -0500 (CDT) Roger Garrett
<rgarrett@-----.edu> writes:
>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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