Klarinet Archive - Posting 000912.txt from 2000/12

From: "Jennifer McKenna" <mai_lin@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Jury duty
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 16:24:23 -0500

Congratulations!

Glad to hear you made it through your first - they're no fun, but not nearly
as bad as you think eh?

Jennifer McKenna
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From: <Tski1128@-----.com>
Subject: [kl] Jury duty

> Well, today I had my end o semester jury. What fun! I played the Cahuzac
> piece "Variations sur un Air Du Pays D'oc". During my last lesson this
> semester Mr. kitt suggested that I play this piece instead of premier
> rhapsody, it was thought that the Cahuzac had more comic value, for a day
of
> undergrad jury duty. I laid on the speed and the schmaltz!. But the real
> kicker was, I got to the jury later than I had hoped to (I was over at the
> field band delivering some mouthpieces that I had made). My reed was
kinda
> dry, the hall was a little cold, so I put on the legere, and set it on
stun.
> I have not been all that excited about these on clarinet, on my mark6 alto
> with a meyer 5 they kick ass. but I figured go for. The panel didn't
realize
> I was playing plastic until one of the members told them, after I got
> critique sheets. Mr. Kitts wrote of my sound quality "Much improved". Part
of
> that is the reed, most of that is adjusting the concept of sound from Army
> band playing into orchestral playing. I must admit the Cahuzac is one of
> those pieces I think that tone and sound quality is secondary to razzle
> dazzle and hot-dog quality, but what the heck, I was making an artistic
> statement. So I had fun, played a plastic reed in public, we laughed, we
> cried. Oh Mr. Kitt did sugest that I should think about NOT using the
double
> high C at the end of the piece. OK, so sometimes I do listen to advice.
>
>
> Tom Puwalski, the artist formerly known as sarge, and one final away from
the
> end of his first semester as a full time music student who thinks he did
> pretty good on his Math 110 final yesterday
>
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