Klarinet Archive - Posting 000896.txt from 2000/04

From: Claudia Zornow <claudia@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Music and gender
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 17:38:35 -0400

James Marioneaux wrote:

> I am a high school band director and two of my 4 tuba players are girls=
, all =

> but one percussionist are girls, trumpets are split about half and half=
=2E I =

> have a girl baritone player and will have two next year, and i have had=
girl =

> trombonists. I had only one male clarinettist last year and have had n=
o male =

> flutists in several years. (I don't know why.) We have more female low=
brass =

> players in junior high. =

During my senior year in high school marching band, the entire
sousaphone section was female, all two of us. It was much more =

fun for me than marching with a clarinet had been.

Claudia (have tuba, will travel)

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