Klarinet Archive - Posting 000418.txt from 1998/11

From: Ed Maurey <edsshop@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinet playing and fever
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 21:13:03 -0500

Claudia Zornow wrote:
>
> 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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Claudia,
You sure played heroically!! I think I once did something like that,
but it was such an terrible experience that I repressed it. Reading
your posting practically got me sweating again.
ED Maurey

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