Klarinet Archive - Posting 000953.txt from 1999/12

From: David Blumberg <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Subject: [kl] Bad Gig Coming
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 22:15:19 -0500

"Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 17:37:50
-0800 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
#@-----. 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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Well Kevin, If you get stuck and have to play the Schubert, I did the Piano
Accomp for that, maybe get the soprano to get it. Sounds like she needs all
the practice she can get :)
May be hard to play with a straight face if she is as bad as I think she is
though.

David Blumberg
music@-----.com
http://www.mp3.com/mytempo
http://www.mytempo.com
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