Klarinet Archive - Posting 000332.txt from 1999/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] C Clarinets (was Orchestral Rep Question)
Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 23:31:13 -0400

At 12:15 PM 5/9/99 -0700, Gary Van Cott wrote:
>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? I remember playing Beethoven's First
>Symphony (C) and Dvoraks' New World Symphony (A) and a bunch of other
>things that required an A clarinet. Never had a C clarinet, of course, and
>only had a borrowed A for a very short period of time.
>
It is not all that surprising. My grade school (K-8) did not even have a
BAND, my high school only a concert band and a pep band, and even in
college there was no orchestra (at that time anyway) I could have played
in! The orchestra opportunities are few enough in the area I now live in
that the music store where I work has never stocked a A clarinet in the 5
years I have worked there (nor has anyone ever ASKED for one). If it had,
you KNOW I would have taken it for an extended spin!

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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