Klarinet Archive - Posting 000410.txt from 1998/11

From: Claudia Zornow <claudia@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Clarinet playing and fever
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:45:03 -0500

Since we're on a physiological roll, I wonder if anyone has comments
about the effects of playing clarinet while running a fever. Last
weekend I played a concert with a fever of 101 (F) and came pretty
close to passing out during the 2nd movement of Beethoven's Eighth.

What I noticed was that I did OK if I had enough rests between the
notes, but long passages (even articulated ones with room for swift
breaths between notes) were extremely strenuous. Interestingly, by
the third movement I was back in my head and managed to pull it off,
though I had to leave out a lot of notes in the fourth movement,
especially when the chills started.

So what's going on physiologically in a case like this?

Claudia

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