Klarinet Archive - Posting 000026.txt from 1998/10

From: "Jennifer McKenna" <mai_lin@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Marching band
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 15:09:05 -0400

hehehehe :)

jenn

>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 20:27:27 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Marching band
>
>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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