Klarinet Archive - Posting 000948.txt from 1999/12

From: "Gene Nibbelin" <gnibbelin@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Bad Gig Coming -- Suggestions Please
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 21:22:41 -0500

How about a change of venue or a 90 day continuance.

Gene Nibbelin

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From: Kevin Fay (LCA) [mailto: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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