Klarinet Archive - Posting 000139.txt from 2000/10

From: Mitch Bassman <mbassman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] very big band...
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:42:28 -0400

At 01:14 PM 10/02/2000 -0500, Mark Thiel wrote:
>Just out of curiosity -- has anyone ever played in a band where our
>brassy friends actually honored the trumpet/cornet distinction
>rather than playing everything on trumpet? I
>assume SOMEBODY must pay attention, perhaps military or
>pro bands -- but then maybe that would be a silly assumption.

Yes. I believe it was in the spring of 1963 in Richmond, Virginia, in the
all-regional high school band. The word came out that year that the
students auditioning for cornet parts in regional (and perhaps all-state?)
were to audition on an actual cornet (trumpet parts on trumpet), presumably
because the guest conductor (whoever he was that year) insisted on using
cornets for the cornet parts. Our first trumpet player (who of course
played the solo cornet parts in our high school concert band) had to borrow
a cornet for the all-regional audition and concert that year. Yes, he did
win first chair.

Mitch Bassman

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