Klarinet Archive - Posting 000145.txt from 2000/05

From: Topper <leo_g@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Metal clarinets . . . in the Arizona Sun! (Ouch!)
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 18:26:14 -0400

At 02:42 PM -0700 5/2/00, Bear Woodson wrote:
>Hello, Clarinet List.
>
> I've never been a clarinet, nor woodwind player, and
>haven't played piano in years, but I am a composer. I've
>heard several not-really-funny stories about Marching Band
>students, being required to practice their playing and
>marching, here in the Arizona Sun, during the summer, when
>it's 105 to 115 degrees F (40 to 46 degrees C) in direct
>sunlight. Ouch!
>
> Of course, this IS the state, where mothers have a VERY
>high success rate of getting their little children to eat their
>vegetables!
>
> "If you don't eat your broccoli, we'll go down to the
> playground, and I'll MAKE you play on the metal slides,
> when you're wearing your short pants!"
>
> "No! No! NO! I'll eat all the broccoli! Anything
> but that!"
>
> "And then, you have to practice the Mozart Clarinet
> Concerto, or I'll make you join the school's Marching
> Band! Either Classical Clarinet, or Marching Band!
> You decide!"
>
> "But last time, my old plastic clarinet melted in the
> Sun, all over my hands, and scalded me! No, no,
> NO! I'll learn the Mozart!"
>
> And you thought, that just because we're in the hot desert,
>that we don't have good musicians! This might explain why
>we have so many fine, classically trained Tuba Players!
>(Hmmm?)
>
>
> Bear Woodson
> doctoral student composer at the
> University of Arizona
> Tucson, Arizona, USA
>
>"Have you ever noticed that the same people who say:
>'Instant Gratification takes too long', also often say
>'Three-Chord-Wonder music has too many chords'?"
>- Bear Woodson

It's a good thing my future students will be up at Pine Hill Shool or
Window Rock. In the mountains where it is cooler. At least we get to go on
a class trip to see the road-man once we are in the 4th - 6th grade. It
sure beats working in the coal fields when we get older :-). Maybe then we
can figure out how to put two and two together and figure that the coal is
making it even hotter.

Another good reason to stay away from St Joe powerplant. But I'll take
Tuscon anytime but I will certainly not haul any Tuba around my neck
<YIKES!> I wonder what they would call that in over at TUBA CITY ??? heh
heh heh no not another Sioux Za Phone....

Cheers, Leo

http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/leo_g@-----.com/
"You Take The High Notes" http://helius.carroll.com/p/leo_g/ There is a
difference between "dealers" and musicians that love not only the sound of
music but the tools which make it possible for people to play music. It's
important to set things free so they may ultimately find their way to
their intended parties. I am especially interested in Musical Instrument
History and technical data. Please email me with interesting links. Thank
you:-) Leo

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