Klarinet Archive - Posting 000478.txt from 2003/04

From: b1rite@-----. Rite)
Subj: RE: [kl] Anecdote - Music touches almost everything
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:36:54 -0400

<><> I have to say, Bill, you have the strangest experiences ... I do
similar things and get nary a nod ...

Perhaps it has to do with the areas in town where my daughter and I
happened to have been.

In my daughter's case, she is active in the religious community. I
suppose that if anyone is going to become exercised about 'religious'
music, she's more on the 'front line' than I am.

I wondered whether "Celtic" necessarily implies pagan beliefs, so I
looked up "Celtic Church" in a dictionary. It says: "The Church as it
existed throughout the British Isles until the sixth century A.D. and as
it held out, at variance with the Church of Rome, in Wales and Ireland
for some time." So I suppose there's room for bad feelings --- albeit
maintaining bad feelings about something from 1500 years ago is
stretching a point (imo). May as well be offended by Carmina Burana.

...and in my case, I was in a shopping center's parking lot. Anything
can happen there. It's no different than being criticized in public
for playing gangsta' rap music too loud --- which is a justified
complaint, of course.

Not to mention, this evening I'm going to the local MultiCultural Center
to hear an Armenian band whose leader plays the "duduk", which I believe
is a primitive single-reed instrument where the reed is whittled
directly from the bamboo body and is not detachable. I'm wondering
whether it's the same instrument that somebody here (Jim Hobby?)
described buying for $10 in the Philippines? I'll ask if it overblows
the octave or twelfth, if it's not obvious from the performance.

....but if I buy a CD at the concert (which is likely) and play it in a
church's parking lot, am I being confrontational or musical?

Cheers,
Bill

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