Klarinet Archive - Posting 000921.txt from 2000/05

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Playing when ill
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 18:40:13 -0400

>
> Tony Pay wrote:
>
> > People have told me that I played really well on several occasions when
> > I was actually feeling like death warmed up.
> >
> > Have others here had this experience?
>
>
Well, most of the time if I'm actually well enough to stand up and get to
the hall, I've tanked up on enough medication that I can get through a
performance relatively without feeling too bad. Two conditions have been
exceptions. One is when the meds are making me so groggy that I can't keep
my eyes open through anything longer than a few beats' rest. I have
unhappily missed entrances this way (I don't think anything really major,
but I'm not certain I'd remember). If one of my symptoms is a serious cough,
I'm left playing anything exposed in fear that I'm going to be interrupted
any second by a coughing fit, which I find very unnerving. The odd thing is
that it almost never happens. The cough seems almost to be soothed by the
steady exhalation. Of course, after the passage is finished and I inhale....

Karl Krelove

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