Klarinet Archive - Posting 000602.txt from 2000/06

From: "Kevin Callahan" <kionon@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] SFA Band Camp Review
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 16:33:15 -0400

Well, some of you may have wondered why I suddenly fell silent. The
reason for that is I just finished Stephen F Austin State University's High
School Band Camp on clarinet. As many of you well know, I play trombone
primarily and have only been playing clarinet for about five months. I made
second to last chair, last band. Bad to others, fine with me, as I was there
to learn, not to play the "I'm cooler than you cause I got a better chair"
game.
And boy, did I learn. I can now play high school music at about 1/3rd
tempo after about four practice sessions, I learned to go over the break
effeciently in on two hour practice session, and learned my chromatic scale
from low E to 3rd C in the same session. It was intense, four hours of
rehearsal, one hour of sectionals, one hour of master class, and one hour of
theory everyday. However, I didn't give up when I got frustrated, or get
lost in the contstant action. The private lesson teacher I employed while
there said two amazing things. Number one, she said I was playing as though
I had played for one and a half years, not five months, and two, she told me
to stop practicing before I made myself sick! :P I don't believe I've ever
had a private lesson teacher tell me to stop practicing because I was doing
it too much!
Other than that, I had a great time doing activities such as the two
dances, meeting people, speaking with professors and students attending SFA.
They even had a Japanese exchange camp going on at the time, and for anyone
who has paid attention to my tag lines, I speak a fair amount of Japanese.
I highly reccomend this camp for anyone who is in a band program in
Texas. It was one of the best summer camps I've ever had the privlidge to
attend. The students are nice, the professors treat as though you were
paying to attend SFA as a music major, the directors of all three bands are
hardworking individuals, and the individual camper is important to all of
them. Now if only my school director was like that...

Kevin Callahan and His Better Understood Vito

P.S. Be wary of the SFA Cafeteria food, it's ooky.

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