Klarinet Archive - Posting 001021.txt from 1999/12

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bad Gig Coming -- Suggestions Please
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 19:55:41 -0500

At 05:37 PM 12/28/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>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.
>
Why not the Moxart concerto w/piano accompaniment? The purists may cringe,
although few of them will be in the audience. The music is very accessible
and I'll wager you are somewhat familiar with it already. :-) The third
movement alone, or even the first, should do it.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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