Klarinet Archive - Posting 000766.txt from 1999/01

From: Dodgshun family <dodgshun@-----.nz>
Subj: Re: [kl] The New York weather report, tweeting birds, and music
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 05:47:58 -0500

At 02:15 PM 16/01/99 EST, you wrote:
<snip>
>Do any clarinet players have any pre-performance
>rituals without which it just wouldn't feel "right"? Particular warmups, or
>just little quirks? For instance, I never put my A together before my Bb - no
>special reason, it just would feel weird to do it the other way around. My
>dad was a trumpet player, and always used to talk about "the ritual of the
>gig" - stuff he always did in the same way in the same order that helped him
>get mentally prepared to play. Anybody else do this?

At orchestra rehearsals and gigs I always put my Bb together, then my A,
then the bass, play a few scales on bass as well as long low notes and a few
high notes, and play some rapid-fire chromatic scales on Bb. If I'm playing
sax as well, that's always dealt with after I've got my clarinets sorted and
working. And when I'm practicing, I always practice bass first. I've never
noticed anyone else in the orchestra I play in doing things in a particular
order, except a trumpet-playing friend of mine who always goes through an
identical warm-up sequence. When I come to pack up my stuff, it's always in
the reverse order.
I did have one other unvariable routine; last year on Mondays, en route from
the university library to a 4pm music history lecture, I always had to visit
the vending machine to get M&Ms from it. No matter what I'd done or had to
eat that day, I had to have M&Ms. So of course whenever I think of music
history now, it is always associated with M&Ms. I don't know whether this
is a good thing or not! I'm not taking music history this year, so that
routine has gone.

Anna

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