Klarinet Archive - Posting 000033.txt from 2001/01

From: Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] community bands & clarinetists
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 01:42:11 -0500

The community college band I play in is short now. When I started five
years ago, we had 10-12. Last semester we had 6 if everyone showed
up. The director brought in a ringer and I brought my son to get us up to
eight for our concerts.

Gary
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At 09:45 PM 1/1/01, you wrote:
>This is a curiosity question: Are community bands and their equivalents
>in other parts of the country/world (I'm in Kansas City, Missouri, USA)
>having a hard time getting sufficient numbers of clarinetists?
>
>I play in three community groups and all three are suffering from serious
>shortages of clarinetists (plain garden variety Bb's, we're not even
>beginning to worry about the harmony clarinets), plus I've been recruited
>either directly or indirectly by three other local groups (obviously, they
>are truly desperate :-). Given the number of clarinetists that start in
>grade school, I (and the directors of these groups) find it astounding
>that even one of the groups could be running at or below the bare minimum
>for the size of the group. I assume this is just a quirk of statistics
>here in KC that will reverse in a year or two, but (as noted) I'm curious.
>
>Diane R. Karius, Ph.D.
>Department of Physiology
>University of Health Sciences
>1750 Independence Ave.
>Kansas City, MO 64106
>(816)-283-2219
>dkarius@-----.edu
>www.uhsweb.edu/physio
>
>
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