Klarinet Archive - Posting 001280.txt from 1999/03

From: "Kevin Bowman" <kbowman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Instant Saxophone(was bass cl/sax double)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 12:45:35 -0500

Frank Silva wrote:
<<
Someone should sponsor a doubling competition. Contestants whould be
required
to play all 13 standard doubles (piccolo, flute, alto flute, oboe, english
horn, Eb, Bb and bass clarinets, soprano, alto, tenor and baritone
saxophones,
and bassoon).

Repertoire would be chosen from standard solo literature, plus jazz and
sight
reading. Maybe a piece commisioned for the competition that utilizes all
doubles would be played for the finals.

Any takers?
>>

Yikes! I wouldn't want to be a judge for that contest. There are so many
doublers whose talent is weighted heavily one or two instrument families
(clarinets, saxes, flutes, or double reeds). It'd be hard to judge whether
a person who is very good on, say, saxes but not so good on flutes is
better than someone who is very good on double reeds but not on clarinets.
Do you weight all the instruments evenly? Or give more value to the
more common instruments in each class (flute, sop. clar., alto sax,
etc.).

I might be tempted to brush up my double reed skills and participate
in such a contest if the top prize were 13 brand new, top-of-the-line
instruments :)

Kevin Bowman
Clarinet & Saxophone Instructor,
Rochester Conservatory of Music, Rochester, MI
and
Saxophones, Clarinet, & Keys,
B-Side Blues Project (http://www.bsideblues.com)

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