Klarinet Archive - Posting 000795.txt from 1999/03

From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Clarinet Cleaning Swabs
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 21:01:24 -0500

Someone posted:

>Another time, opening of one of Gershwins things with the low G trill
>that glissandos up to high c. For some reason I started to worry, hit
>the high c and started to pass out, only lost my vision for about 10
>seconds, played through it from memory, sight came back with a slight
>tingling sensation in the extremities.
>
>No fun.

(Twilight Zone vamp in the background)

This is really weird. Not that it happened, but that it also happened to
ME--same piece, same sensation. I don't think it was from worry--I don't
recall getting stage fright, it was the 4th performance--but perhaps
something physiological about the glissando that causes a head rush?

kjf

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