Klarinet Archive - Posting 000745.txt from 2003/03

From: "Fernando Silveira" <amigo222@-----.br>
Subj: Re: [kl] spanish posts (Fernando Silveira)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 08:27:31 -0500

Hi Kelly,
Before I read your post I were surprised, too, with those posts in spanish.
I've studied spanish on the high school and it were needed to go to the
college. Here in Brazil, to go to the colege, you must have to choose to
make a test in spanish or english. I choose spanish on that time.
After that I started to travel a lot and, at the same time, I saw that most
of the clarinet literture were in english. So I started to learn english. It
were very good, because you will, for shure, need it to go to Master's and
Doctor's degree.
We, here in Brazil, have a joke that all foreigns means that the capital of
Brazil is Buenos Aires (instead Brasilia). Maybe for that reason the people
think that we, here in Brazil, speak spanish.
Today I prefeer speak, write and read in english. I fell more confortble,
even doin'g, yet, some mistakes.
But, coming back to our subject, I were invited to audition in Jacksonvile
Symphony and the bass clarinet I regular play is from Brazilian Symphony. On
that period (the audition is on april 7th) I won't travel with this
instrument.
But I am felling that, maybe, won't be easy to find a good rent instrument.

Thank you all a lot

Fernando Silveira

----- Original Message -----
From: "CBA" <clarinet10001@-----.com>
Subject: [kl] spanish posts (Fernando Silveira)

> I think the Spanish posts are great. There is a Spanish clarinet
> list (clarperu, I believe...also stemming from the woodwind.org
> website, if you need info.)
>
> The irony is, I believe Elizabeth+'s original Spanish post was
> to Fernando Silveira, who lives in Rio (Brasil) where they would
> be speaking PORTUGUESE as the primary language. My travels in
> Brasil gave me a big surprise...Brasilians, as a rule, speak
> Portuguese first, and English second. I even met a good portion
> of the people there that spoke Italian. I met NO ONE in Brasil
> the times I was there that actually spoke Spanish much. (It was
> quite curious to me, considering that all of the surrounding
> South American countries speak Spanish, that Brasilians wouldn't
> make a point to learn Spanish before English - after Portuguese,
> of course.)
>
> Fernando (Silveira,) were you able to read any of these posts in
> Spanish, or are these Spanish posts harder for you to read than
> the English ones are? If you can't read the Spanish posts people
> have recently put on the list, maybe they can repost them to you
> in English?
>
> Obrigado Fernando. Boa sorte!
>
> Kelly Abraham
> Woodwinds - New York City
>
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