Klarinet Archive - Posting 000849.txt from 2000/04

From: "Trish Mendenhall" <trishm@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music and Academic Achievement
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 21:13:57 -0400

Sounds like my stand partner and I, when we were in high school, as well. We
were first and second chair clarinet in the concert band. Our band director
suggested we both pick up alto and try out for the jazz ensemble in our
junior year. Both of us picked up the horns, and a week later, we ended up
with the two alto parts in the jazz ensemble, beating out several long-time
sax players who thought they had the spots sewn up.

In the end, the jazz ensemble ended up with a sax section of 5, all of whom
played at *least* three different instruments. It gave us a lot of scope in
choice of music, and the judges loved it when we walked in with a line-up of
horns at each stand.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] Music and Academic Achievement

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Neil Leupold" <leupold_1@-----.com>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 11:54 AM
> Subject: RE: [kl] Music and Academic Achievement
>
>
> >
> >[snip] ...I took home the school's
> > tenor sax for the first time on Friday afternoon and returned to join
> > the jazz ensemble on Monday morning. I received nothing but encourage-
> > ment and support.
>
> Similar thing happened to me. For some reason, none of the sax players
> wanted to play tenor in the jazz ensemble and so the band director asked
me
> to give it a try. If I recall correctly, only one of the alto players was
> interested in jazz band so we ended up with one alto and one tenor.
>
>
> Dee Hays
> Canton, SD
>
>
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