Klarinet Archive - Posting 000115.txt from 1999/07

From: Jack Kissinger <kissingerjn@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: 4th of July Celebrations
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 09:41:30 -0400

OK everyone, 'fess up. How many of you played yesterday or will play today,
the 1812 Overture with cannons? (Extra points for real church bells.) BTW,
our cannons didn't work very well -- only a two or three of the seven went
off when they were supposed to. (But then, they *were* civil war cannons and
I suspect civil war clarinets wouldn't have worked too well either!) When
the rest of the cannons finally fired, however, they provided a great effect
in "The Stars and Stripes Forever" which followed.

Maybe they'll work tonight.... I can hardly wait.

Best regards,
Jack Kissinger
St. Louis

jim and joyce wrote:

> Our neighborhood has a parade running about 6 blocks and
> ending (where it starts) at the community house. Then hamburgers and
> hotdogs various salads and
> watermelon and deserts. Our neighborhood band plays twice a year. Our
>
> youngest player (this year) was a 5th grader. Some years the band has
> several
> ringers from service bands (the Washington D.C. area has several) and
> the band
> sounds better than the high school band I played in. This year we had
> fewer ringers,
> the director handed out three new marches (one of which I had never
> heard before,
> much less played -- and naturally I brought my eefer with no lyre) and
> for some
> reason we all didn't tune up. I play by ear and that is hard when no
> note actually
> sounds right. Anyway, the three drummers kept a very tight rhythm --
> no surprise, two are professional musicians. Whenever the drums simply
> played cadence, however, one of the high school girls would doodle on
> her trumpet and pretty soon a third of the band would pick up the tune.
>
> We were followed by the precision lawnmower team. Unfortunately, they
> had pulled their spark plugs, so they didn’t provide any cover for us.
>
> Afterwards, at least a dozen people came over to say how wonderful the
> band sounded, etc, etc. Moral: stick to the beat, play loud, don’t
> sweat the small stuff and keep moving. And choose a durable
> instrument. No sense taking a pro horn --- it might learn some bad
> habits.
>
> Hope everyone else had a great fourth.

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