Klarinet Archive - Posting 001130.txt from 2004/03

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Oboeist to Chef!
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:21:39 -0500

mlmarmer wrote:

> Back to Allan being a Chef and the Food service director at the College, he
> is the one the students have to deal with when they lose their semester meal
> cards! Not a pretty picture I bet, as you know those Oboe players. I hear
> they can real testy at times! It's the double reeds that get them all the
> time!
>
> Mike

This business about a player (and often a very fine player) getting
burned out and leaving the business behind him is far more common than I
ever thought. And I don't think that it is something that should be
mentioned and forgotten.

There are a lot of younger people on this list who have every intention
of performing professionally, playing in a good orchestra, and spending
their lives in a particular position. So if anyone has any information
that could shed light on the idea of "loss of vision" or "the loss of an
ideal," I think that it would make an excellent discussion.

There are people on this list who have played their whole lives and
probably had the normal crap that comes with an orchestral position, but
the idea of leaving it for something totally unrelated, is quite foreign
to me.

Is it the oboe? Is it the Israel Philharmonic? What it is?

A few years ago I played a gig in Santa Cruz, CA, not a hot spot for
really fabulous players, and a young woman was playing oboe. She
absolutely knocked me out. And when I spoke to her later, it turns out
that she too left the IPO (or was asked to leave by the current music
director), and now she lives and works in Santa Cruz doing things
totally unrelated to music.

What it is that causes this phenomenon? Is it overwork, bad colleagues,
playing a lot of music that one does not like.

Dan

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