Klarinet Archive - Posting 000661.txt from 1999/08

From: "Paulette W. Gulakowski" <pollyg@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Audience distractions, with a wrinkle
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 02:39:37 -0400

Give the recital twice - sans audience the second time.

I had a student in class 20+ years ago whose name was Donald Duck III.
Imagine his graduation!
Gotta go to band, now.
Paulette
<==ooo'=ooo;;=<)
Got Band?

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 17:58:54 -0500 (CDT) Stephen Heinemann
<sjh@-----.edu> writes:
>I had a very unusual experience with this a few years ago. I'd be
>interested to know what klarinet readers would have done in this same
>situation:
>
>I was giving a faculty recital and quickly became aware that one of
>the
>audience members was a student (_not_ a musician) who suffered from
>Tourette's Syndrome, a rare disorder that in extreme cases can cause
>the
>sufferer involuntarily to bark or swear loudly and frequently. This
>student's was one such extreme case.
>
>On the one hand, I had spent a lot of time preparing and had
>reasonable
>expectations about how the recital would be received; it was being
>recorded for future broadcast on our NPR station; a guest composer
>would
>certainly hear a quite different version of his clarinet piece than he
>had
>expected; the audience members would certainly remember nothing about
>the
>concert except the Tourette's.
>
>On the other hand, the student was taking music appreciation and
>fulfilling a minimum recital attendance requirement (so if my recital
>
>hadn't been affected, another would have); Tourette's Syndrome is a
>disability fully and correctly covered under the Americans with
>Disabilities Act; the student was understandably wary of receiving
>"special" treatment, such as invitations to private performances or
>dress rehearsals in lieu of the actual concert experience.
>
>OK, you have to decide how to handle the situation NOW! What do you
>do?
>I'll tell you what happened a day or two from now. Then I'll tell
>the
>fascinating tale about when I was reading names at graduation last May
>
>in front of 10,000 people and one of the students handed me his
>name-card
>with the words "Homer J. Simpson" printed on it.
>
>Steve Heinemann
>Bradley University
>sjh@-----.edu
>
>
>
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