Klarinet Archive - Posting 000202.txt from 2003/07
From: "Wendy" <bosma@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Memorizing music
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 13:51:42 -0400
I quoted you, Bill, at a show the other night. Everyone had a mic and it
was just a tiny little venue. They had two saxes (at times) and I told my
friends about your .sig file. I told them between songs, you see, because
it was way too loud to speak during the songs. I was very displeased with
the whole event. But I was there for the $2 drafts anyway. :)
Have a Nice Day!!
Wendy :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Hausmann [mailto:bhausmann1@-----.net]
Subject: RE: [kl] Memorizing music
At 10:49 AM 7/7/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>At 07:34 AM 7/7/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>>I was always under the assumption that the bad marching
>>resulting from people LOOKING at the flip folders instead of the
>>field was the main reason for memorizing marching band music...
>>
>>...or maybe that's just what they told me, since I sucked at
>>marching...LOL!
>
>I never saw a flip folder in the years my younger son played trumpet and
>marching baritone horn in his HS marching band. I don't think I even saw
>them use a lyre to hold music. It's hard enough to walk and chew
>gum--it's that much harder to do fancy steps, play, and worry about what's
>on the page. Which accounted for band camp. Didn't someone here say that
>they didn't do band camp because the school was too cheap? A pity. Our
>kids took the field looking like pros because they'd spent a really
>intensive week with the band director and drum majors drilling them in the
>choreography for the selections. Nobody stepped on anyone else's feet,
>they managed some intricate footwork, and they sounded good enough to at
>least place high in the band competitions at Giants Stadium every year.
My only experience with marching band was in college (at Notre Dame), now
30 years ago! We did an entirely new show for each football game, and used
lyres and flip folders for the music during earlier rehearsals, but had to
have the music memorized for last day or so and the performance. It was a
little rough when you had two home games on successive weekends, but that's
the way it was sometimes. They currently march the games carrying music,
but admittedly, they are playing much more complicated music that we
did. When you do only ONE show for the whole season, you can memorize all
the music during band camp and then not have to worry about it any more.
Bill Hausmann
If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!
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