Klarinet Archive - Posting 000063.txt from 2004/02

From: Jimmy Lee <jrlaudio@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] looking for a place to practice in Reston VA USA
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 12:56:00 -0500

Lelia,
Don't hold back. Tell us what you really think about this community.
Jimmy

Lelia Loban wrote:

> George Kuhner wrote:
> > I don't know if it is allowed in the US to play
> > on the street. I did this when I was younger
> > and needed practice in front of some people.
>
> I live in Northern Virginia, just off Rt. 7, the same highway that goes to
> Reston. (I'm in Falls Church, about half an hour closer to Washington, D.
> C. from Reston.) Reston is one of those meticulously planned communities,
> a suburb built around a town center. The guiding principle of the place
> seems to be institutional terror of nonconformity. Residents must get
> permission to paint their houses, and have to choose paint from the
> officially approved list of a few shades of Neutral, Bland and Blah. Never
> mind what it takes to get a building permit for anything truly radical,
> such as widening the porch or adding a window. Reston lands in the news
> regularly (on days when there isn't any real news) because somebody got
> cited, fined, threatened with eviction, placed in the stocks, etc., for
> having the unmitigated gall to string up a clothesline in the back yard, or
> hang a flower planter from the window sill, or some damned silly thing.
> (Okay, okay, I'm lying about the stocks. They haven't gotten around to
> erecting a pillory yet, either. Probably tied up in a planning committee
> quarrel.)
>
> In short, my guess is that busking without a permit in Reston would
> probably get you pounced on and fined, approximately a nanosecond after you
> opened your clarinet case, and my further guess is that the High Mugfrumps
> in Reston don't give permits for busking and probably fine people just for
> asking. If I had to go stay there, I'd follow up on the suggestion to
> locate a synagogue or a church -- if you can manage to distinguish those
> buildings from the other buildings built in rigid obedience to the plan! --
> and beg nicely.
>
> Lelia Loban
> E-mail: lelialoban@-----.net
> Web site (original music scores as audio or print-out):
> http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/LeliaLoban
>
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