Klarinet Archive - Posting 000376.txt from 2003/03

From: "Albert Nemiroff" <anemiroff@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Theater Sound
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 12:15:34 -0500

I'm old enough to have used the 01A vacuum tube in radio construction, crank
wound Victor Talking Machines and enjoyed acoustic performances of Oklahoma,
South Pacific and Finnians' Rainbow. A few years ago I went to the Schubert
Theater in Los Angeles to see Beauty and the Beast. The sound was SO
'electronic'. After the performance I peeked through the jail-like grill
into the pit UNDER the stage to see a number of first call musicians, who I
recognized, packing up far more instrumentation than could be appreciated
via the sound system. The high point of the evening was the explosion of
applause on the entrance of Tom Bosley who played Belle's father. The
lighting effects were good. What a kick in the head to someone from Chicago,
who as a teenager, would like to have enjoyed a career as a pit musician in
the New York Theater of THAT day. It was 17 years later that I played bass
clarinet in a summer-stock performances of Cinderella and The Music Man in
Modesto, California. If you want a living theater you must KEEP IT LIVE!

"There once was a Union Maid,
Who never was afraid
Of gooks and ginks and company finks.....
Oh you can't scare me, I'm stickin' to the Union,
I'm stickin' the Union, I'm stickin' to the Union......"
Al
Our clinical practitioner group, for better or worse, unionized last year
because a handshake doesn't do it anymore.

From: "Karl Krelove"
Subject: [kl] Theater Sound - Was [kl] Richard Bush`s Letter to Actor's
Equity
Has anyone even considered trying to do one of the old shows (were the
> pits in the original Oklahoma or South Pacific productions miked?)
> acoustically? If I've ever experienced such a performance (outside of
opera
> in a concert hall venue) I was too young still to remember it. I find
myself
> more and more wondering what it would sound like and why (other than
modern
> audience expectation) it won't work.
> After all, we're moving back to real grass in our baseball stadiums....
> Karl Krelove
> (who is only old enough to remember vacuum tubes, not Victor Talking
> Machines)

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