Klarinet Archive - Posting 000438.txt from 1998/11

From: musicgirl82@-----.com (Ginger Hill)
Subj: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 11 Nov 1998 21:15:02 -0000 Issue 700
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 04:38:21 -0500

Claudia,
I have played many a concert while feeling quite under the weather. I
can comment that playing the clarinet while running a fever is definitely
not a good idea. The body is (obviously) in a fragile state if you are
experiencing a temperature of 101. Playing the clarinet only worsens your
condition, in the respect that clarinet playing (as everybody may know)
effects the body as a whole. Your breathing, posture, vision,
psychological self...etc..are all effected by playing. Playing with a 101
fever exerts extra (and undoubtedly un-needed) pressures on yourself.
Mentally, you're already "off" with a fever that high, and the pressure
of performance just worsens everything.
I hope you're OK!

:) Ginger

>
>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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