Klarinet Archive - Posting 000789.txt from 1999/09

From: Ken Wolman <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] First impressions
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 05:20:55 -0400

>> If you warm up with substandard playing in front of an audition panel,
>> you are TOAST.
>
>You must be joking.
>
>> The first impression is the strongest, and as a result, the very first
>> note of your warm up should be as beautiful and musical and expressive
>> as the last note of the performance.
>
>Nah.

Probably another case of "it depends," as in who you're warming up for and
the kind of person or people doing the listening. There's a story Buddy
DeFranco told about Benny Goodman hiring a sax player for one of his big
bands. Before the show, Goodman heard the guy running scales as his
warm-up. Goodman walked over, said "Sorry, but I don't think this is going
to work out," paid the sax player for the night, and fired him on the spot.

I suppose it was generous of him to pay the guy....

Ken

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Kenneth Wolman http://www.rio-cardoner.com
"When you stop falling you will be in heaven but when you stop getting up
you will be in hell." -- David Torkington

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