Klarinet Archive - Posting 000662.txt from 2003/05

From: "Rebecca Brennan" <rjbrennan1221@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Take pity on a limey please
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 09:21:40 -0400

I would just love to be lifted in the air, as if I were royalty, while
playing a solo! Especially by lowly pesant trumpeters! I was lifted in guard
once. I remember suggesting that the dictator make some other people lifting
my fat self feed me grapes!

>From: Barbara Reimer <muse@-----.net>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Take pity on a limey please
>Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 23:54:03 -0600
>
>>. In marching bands, all woodwind players have a part, it's just that
>>they are not heard very well. Brass can project straight to the audience,
>>and saxophones as well. With woodwinds, it's a problem of projection.
>>Clarinets play directly to the ground, and that's why they can not be
>>heard. However, woodwind parts still exist.
>>
>>
>>
>
>Although I agree brass and percussion have dominance in the marching band
>(especially in DCI) and clarinets are harder than those instruments to
>project from a football field, it must be said that there is a place for
>clarinets in marching bands. I remember some awesome performances from the
>senior and open categories at MACBDA of the Robin Hood Suite by one and
>another who played the Moorside March by Holst (and not a version adapted
>for marching band either).
>
>The strengths of these groups was that they chose the repertoire based on
>their instrumentation. The Robin hood suite was played for the entire time
>allowed (no breaks in sound coming from the field) with the differing
>sections taking over when others were resting their chops. It sounded
>fantatsic. Also, at one of our western canadian competitions one band had
>a clarinet solo where a group of brass players (mostly trumpets if memory
>serves) lifted the clarinetist up on a circular platform while he was
>playing to bring visual attention to him as well. That just blew me away
>because the sound coming out of this guy's horn was just beautiful and so
>clear and just so amazing to hear coming from a football field. And I was
>sitting in the boonies with the other bands waiting to go on. It was
>obvious of the talent of this particular player and why should he/she be
>excluded because he plays clarinet or eefer? (this , of course said with
>understanding of the drum & bugle corps and DCI competitions.) It, to me,
>is more a question of focus of the director.
>
>I believe that the woodwind parts exist for a reason much beyond that of
>just existing. The whole is made up of the parts. One may not think they
>can hear a clarinet sound coming from the field as such but if the section
>is playing you should hear that addition to the sound character of the
>group as a whole. As with any other type of group playing, be it chamber,
>or orchestral, or wind ensemble or marching band it all comes down to
>balance between your sections. If you can't hear your woodwind section,
>and they are written into the score, maybe it's because your other sections
>are playing too loud? (Or vice versa) There is NO reason why a marching
>band can't play with a dynamic range and balance.
>
>
>
>
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