Klarinet Archive - Posting 000698.txt from 1998/11

From: Note Staff Unlimited <notestaff@-----.ch>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: clarinet playing and fever
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 07:51:10 -0500

Brent Eresman schrieb:

> Jacqueline Eastwood wrote:
>
> > I have yet to be hit by a bus on my
> > way to a performance (knock on wood!) but I have no idea what would happen
> > if I just didn't show up! Would they try to find a sub? What about
> > getting the music? I'm curious if anyone has experienced anything like
> > this (hopefully not under tragic circumstances; merely unavoidable ones
> > like some woman player going into labor or something!). Any stories out
> > there?
> >
> I've not had to bail on a performance, but i've been on the other
> side of that coin--i got a phone call at about six one Saturday
> evening from a friend, who plays second clarinet with the local
> regional orchestra. He was coming down with something which wouldn't
> allow him to even stand, much less play or drive to a concert--which
> was at eight that night, in a town about an hour and a half away.
> Would i play for him? I answered yes, he told me where it was (a
> high school auditorium in that town), i got dressed and jumped in
> the car with my clarinet, and left.
>
> When i got to the school on the outskirts of town (with plenty of
> time, i thought), i found it to be locked and dark. I hunted around
> for a pay phone and called my friend (who sounded absolutely
> miserable) who said he thought he remembered them playing once in a
> hall somewhere near the middle of town. That's all he could
> remember. I went down into town and hunted around. I figured that i
> might see people dressed up going somewhere, which would hopefully be
> the concert. Sure enough, i spotted some folks, who were indeed
> going to the concert and told me how to find the place.
>
> I got into the building five minutes before the concert began and
> then got to sight read the concert. I think i started producing
> saliva again about the middle of the second piece. There wasn't
> anything terribly demanding (i do remember that reading the C
> clarinet part of Brahms 4th was a bit taxing), for which i was
> grateful.
>
> My friend did get better, so all's well that ends well, i suppose.
> I appreciate every opportunity to play, and would like to play more;
> however, i'm glad that it's not usually quite like that.
>
> Brent Eresman
> beresman@-----.com
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------

Reminds me of the time I went to the first rehearsal for the Mozart Requium in
Breisach. The rehearsal had been moved from the Cathedral (Munster) to a school
and nobody told me. I wandered around the (beautiful) town until I found some
one who knew some choir members. I was only half an hour late and it was only a
rehearsal but a bit of an adventure. I felt proud of myself for finding it at
all...
David
David Glenn
notestaff@-----.ch

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