Klarinet Archive - Posting 000121.txt from 1999/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: 4th of July Celebrations
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 10:59:30 -0400

At 07:50 AM 7/5/1999 -0500, Jack Kissinger wrote:
>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.
>
Didn't play 1812, but DID play "Stars and Stripes Forever," among other
patriotic selections.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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