Klarinet Archive - Posting 000965.txt from 1999/12

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Bad Gig Coming -- Suggestions Please
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 08:15:45 -0500

Kevin Fay wrote,
>I've been "volunteered" to play a short selection for a room full of lawyers
in April. [snip] 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). > [snip]

Commiserations on the command performance. Maybe Scott Joplin could brighten
things up a bit. Edward B. Marks Music Co., distributed by Hal Leonard,
publishes "Scott Joplin Ragtime Classics" for Bb clarinet and piano, arranged
by Marcel G. Frank. (Contents: "The Entertainer," "Scott Joplin's New Rag,"
"The Easy Winners," "Pleasant Moments" and "The Cascades.") For some reason,
"The Cascades" strikes me as peculiarly appropriate for a roomful of Borg
lawyers coming off the Y2K frolic and detour....) These pieces are all
brief, accessible to an audience and fun for the musicians. An
intermediate-level student with a decent sense of rhythm can play the piano
parts.

>(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 . . . )>

Maybe you should introduce her to the performance concepts of John Cage.
;-)

Lelia
~~~~~~~~~~~
Asked my dentist if his office expected any Y2K problems. He said, "We don't
use computers. We use brains."
~~~~~~~~~~~

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