Klarinet Archive - Posting 000077.txt from 1998/10

From: pollyg@-----. Gulakowski)
Subj: Re: [kl] Marching band
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 23:21:55 -0400

Thanks Roger. I appreciate your caring response. I'm so used to having
to jump in and defend. I love the marching, I love the concert band - I
was never good enough for orchestra so can't relate to that, I love the
soloing, and I love playing with my choir. I love dance, and musical
theatre, some but not all opera, small ensemble etc.etc.

Gushing over.

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

On Thu, 1 Oct 1998 07:51:02 -0500 (CDT) Roger Garrett
<rgarrett@-----.edu> writes:
>On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Paulette W. Gulakowski wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>Read my first three posts......then your last question regarding
>"serious
>musicians" will be answered.
>
>I still have my four years of marching band at Michigan in large
>frames on
>my office walls - two of those years as first chair clarinet (yay) -
>great
>years and a terrific time......I wouldn't excahange them for much of
>anything either - EXCEPT orchestra and the the Symphony Band at U of M
>were much more satisfying. If I HAD to make a choice, it would have
>been
>the latter.....but I didn't have to make that choice - both were
>available
>to me. I know about the marching issue for men only.....used to
>happen at
>U of M too - when Revelli retired, George Cavender added women - the
>band
>is, in my opinion, better than ever. I have already written that
>marching is a good part of the program - just not the most important
>part.
>
>Roger GArrett
>IWU
>
>
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