Klarinet Archive - Posting 000947.txt from 1999/12

From: "mark weinstein" <cpaok@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bad Gig Coming -- Suggestions Please
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 20:49:33 -0500

How about the Finzi Bagatelles ... doesn't have to be all of 'em --- and
shouldn't be too tough on the pianist either. Your solution to the soprano
is a song with no words.

Gershwin excerpts ?

----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Fay (LCA) <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subject: [kl] Bad Gig Coming -- Suggestions Please

> OK, here's a wild one.
>
> I've been "volunteered" to play a short selection for a room full of
lawyers
> in April. (Spare the jokes, please -- I've heard them all). It's my
> bosses' bosses' idea of corporate well-being and all sorts of other
#=&(%$+*
> like that. Since I like having my job, I have to do this.
>
> Here's the problem -- what to play? I want something very light and
> hopefully short. The audience really isn't into chamber music (and I'm
not
> really into playing for them). I was thinking the 3rd movement of the
> Poulenc Sonata, but it's too long and a bit atonal for this audience --
and
> the piano player, while a very fine paralegal, is not a great pianist.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> (Oh -- and it gets worse. MUCH worse. There's another lawyer here who
> sings soprano in her church, and thinks that it'd be great fun to try
> Schubert's "Shepherd on a Rock" in front of all of all of our co-workers.
> She does not sing as well as the piano player plays. I'm trying to
dissuade
> this one . . . )
>
> All ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> kjf
>
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