Klarinet Archive - Posting 000244.txt from 2002/06

From: "James Hobby" <jhobby@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Majoring in Clarinet Performance
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 19:52:55 -0400

I added education and technical theatre to my music major and wound up with
a teaching license, as well as the performance aspect.

Perhaps my major mistake was to try to do it all at one time. In addition
to teaching high school band/music full time, I played in the Chattanooga
Symphony, the Chattanooga and Huntsville Opera orchestras, taught clarinet
and flute at Cadek Conservatory two afternoons a week, private studio at a
music store on Saturday and Sunday, and filled in my leisure hours as the
technical director of the Circle Theatre. Of course, in the summer I was
music director of a junior drum corps, except for two weeks, where I was a
woodwinds instructor at a college summer music camp.

I lasted about eight years, trying to find more ends at which to burn the
candle. <g> I went back to school and became a court reporter. Now I play
for my own enjoyment and help the high school band director with his
woodwind sections. Actually, I take my vacation from court to work with the
summer band camp, so I guess things haven't changed a great deal. <g>

Jim Hobby

>From: "Lacy Schroeder" <LacyS@-----.org>

>Well, I've not regretted it yet, but then again, I just finished my
>bachelor's degree. But, I'll be continuing in performance for my
>master's at Northwestern University this fall, so I do have a definite
>desire to play. As far as an orchestral position being a "job" (I don't
>know what you think is involved by use of the quotation marks), in a lot
>of orchestras yes, it is a full-time 52 week a year job. In other
>orchestras it's not. It depends on which one you're dealing with.

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