Klarinet Archive - Posting 000359.txt from 2003/03

From: "Lorne G. Buick" <lgbuick@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] synchronicity/ Piano and Clarinet Technique
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 22:03:43 -0500

At the exact moment I was reading these messages, Tommy Banks was on
CBC radio and started playing Take the A Train. !?!?!?!?!? (Or
maybe it was the Canadian version, "Take the train, eh" ) He even
played it in C...

>What about an Irishman?
>
>The tune is: Take the 'A' train
>
>George Galway Manchester UK
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Anthony Wakefield" <tony-w@-----.uk>
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:00 AM
>Subject: Re: [kl] Piano and Clarinet Technique
>
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Christy Erickson"
>> > Does anyone else here play piano and clarinet?
>>
>> Quite a few I would expect. Certainy moi, and Ian Black also, The Scottish
>> one!
>> My quirk is that whereas I play jazz on piano, and just a modicum of
>> accompanying my clarinet students for their exams, I only play "straight"
>> clarinet. This of course includes theatre work, but it is esentially
> > "reading". I attribute this "crazyness" to the piano being my first
>> instrument, where I quickly became interested in jazz, and so on the
>> keyboard, the chords under my fingers come thick`n`fast. I didn`t start
>> clarinet until my late teens, so I can`t get my fingers round a C - D9b5 -
> > Dm7 - G9 - C fluently enough on clarinet to carry a jazz chorus,
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Lorne G Buick Principal Clarinet, Newfoundland Symphony
lgbuick@-----. John's, Newfoundland

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