Klarinet Archive - Posting 000190.txt from 1999/06

From: James Leonard Hobby <jhobby@-----.Net>
Subj: [kl] Standing/sitting
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 23:46:42 -0400

I've read the various messages on this, and wondered if my teacher knew
something specific or was just middle-of-the-road on this. My memory is
that you perform the concerto, or other works with orchestral
*accompaniment*, standing, and from memory. Sonatas, etc., where it's
clarinet AND piano, you sit and play from the music. (Or clarinet and any
small ensemble where the instruments are on equal footing.) (Having said
this, I played the Brahms Sonata as a part of my senior recital, and did it
standing by the piano.)

I don't recall that I ever asked him why -- or even wondered, for that
matter. It always seemed reasonable to me.

Jim Hobby

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>From: Jack Kissinger <kissingerjn@-----.EDU>
>Subject: Standing and sitting
>I have seen list members state that they prefer to sit
>and consider it equally appropriate to standing but I
>have yet to see any argument in the current or past
>thread that gives reasons (let alone good reasons) why,
>in general, no clarinetist should ever stand in
>performance.

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