Klarinet Archive - Posting 000035.txt from 2001/08

From: Lacy Schroeder <LacyS@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] I'm baaack!
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 20:56:18 -0400

Oh, I'm sorry, it was the Sewanee Summer Music Festival at the University of
the South in Sewanee, TN. In the Smoky Mountains, too! Great fun!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Fosdick [mailto:bfosdick@-----.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 7:56 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] I'm baaack!
>
>
> Lacy--
> If it's OK to ask---Which camp was this? .
> Sorry if you already mentioned it and I missed it!
> Thanks!
> At 04:46 PM 8/1/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >I had a great time, too! The campus is completely beautiful, and the
> >mountains are such a sight for this midwesterner's sore eyes!
> >
> >I want to tell you all about my experience the first week of
> camp, which is
> >the most exciting and the best hookup: We had studio
> auditions the day we
> >arrived, and they made the assignments that night. I got
> principal that
> >first week playing Symphonie Fantastique, with Victor Yampolsky of
> >Northwestern University conducting. He also conducted the
> first Festival
> >Orchestra concert on the second night, during which at the
> intermission I
> >saw him and introduced myself to him and conversed with him
> in Russian (I do
> >speak Russian to an extent, and I think he found it rather
> amusing, since he
> >said I speak with an American accent.), and told him that
> I'm a clarinet
> >player. The next morning, Monday, was our first rehearsal,
> and I think I
> >read it pretty well. He came up to me after rehearsal and
> asked me what year
> >I was in school and what plans I had for graduate studies. I
> said that I was
> >interested in Northwestern and several other places as well.
> He told me to
> >sit down with him, so we did and he looked me straight in
> the face and said
> >to me about Northwestern, "Young lady, for you, it's
> absolutely not an
> >option." And he kept a straight face for about 5 seconds,
> during which time
> >stood still and I was thinking, I shouldn't even be talking
> to this guy, I
> >suck, I'm out of my league, I'll get eaten alive there. He
> knew he had me
> >going. Then he smiled real big and said, "It is a MUST. And
> you have to
> >audition for Chicago Civic as well." So we talked about the
> grad programs
> >and the teachers there and I felt much better. I just hope I
> can get a good
> >scholarship or an assistantship!
> >
> >The following weeks were a blast as well! All sections
> worked on a rotation
> >basis, so it was rare for anyone to play principal two
> weeks. The fourth
> >week, the clarinet studio had auditions because we were
> doing Pines of Rome,
> >and I won the principal spot! Some of the others were upset,
> because I had
> >already had principal the first week and that not everybody
> was going to
> >have the chance to play principal. I understood their
> frustration, but at
> >the same time, I just do what I'm assigned. It was a blast
> to play that
> >piece, though. The control factor of the solo is a real challenge.
> >
> >The other weeks were great, too. I played principal again in
> Polovetsian
> >Dances, which was great because of the audition excerptage
> of the piece, and
> >we played Sibelius's 2nd, Tchaikovsky's 6th, and Mahler's
> 2nd. James Paul
> >conducted the Sibelius, and it was a magical performance. He
> really knows
> >how to draw the best out of the performers! I also played in
> a great wodwind
> >quintet, and played some good pieces. The last week (which
> was actually last
> >week) I played 2nd clarinet alongside my teacher in the faculty's
> >performance of Strauss's "Der Burger als Edelmann," also called "Le
> >Bourgeois Gentillhomme," with all the cuckoo calls, menuets
> and such. Great
> >piece! I thoroughly enjoyed my stay, and made many new friends and
> >connections. So how has everyone's summer been so far?
> >
> >Lacy Schroeder
> >
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