Klarinet Archive - Posting 000317.txt from 1999/05

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] C Clarinets (was Orchestral Rep Question)
Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 19:55:08 -0400

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From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.org>
Date: Sunday, May 09, 1999 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] C Clarinets (was Orchestral Rep Question)

>From: Gary Van Cott <Gary@-----.com
>> Cindy wrote:
>> Seriously, I've never NEEDED to transpose on sight. <
>>
>> Gosh, I am surprised to hear someone say this. Didn't you have a
>chance to
>> play in an orchestra in high school?
>
>Gary,
>There's an _awful_ lot of high schools in the US now with no orchestra
>program at all. The funding for an orchestra, a significant sum, just
>isn't there anymore. My school district funds band only. Some of the
>larger districts do have an orchestra.

There's an awful lot of high schools that _never_ had an orchestra. My
graduating class was 69 students and that was the biggest to ever come out
of that school. The school districts that my daughters have attended have
always had under 400 students enrolled and these were the 4 year high
schools. In these schools, there just isn't a large enough base to have an
orchestra.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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