Klarinet Archive - Posting 000131.txt from 2004/10

From: Haschengeliebter@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinet popularity was: Now Opportunity
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 17:49:19 -0400

our band never traveled with the football team and now I know why...I am
sorry but WOW that must have been crazy...band camp was from 8 to noon with 30 min
break...more if the weather was bad...we marched military style...and there
was not anything aloud as far as picking on anyone or anything...unless then
were on the wrong foot...no seniority we were to treat each other as
equals...and it worked out for the most part...our oboes are Bb horns when they march...I
played the Baritone when I marched...but we had just bought new bell front
ones...I feel bad for your son and I am sorry he had to go through that...I hope
that there are not very many like that around. I know the one I was in was
not like that. The only reason people quit marching band was because they didn't
want to get up early or walk around during there summer in the heat...(and
this is what they said) I am sorry he had such a crappie time but I am sure
(well I hope) there are more out there like mine was/still is then like
his...sorry about your bad experiences...the board of education didn't fund our band at
all untill about a year or two ago...and even now...it isnt much compaired to
what we need...the band boosters do it all...

~Krista~

In a message dated 10/5/2004 12:41:23 PM Pacific Standard Time,
kwolman@-----.com writes:
> where I came form in Ohio the band paid for everything and we had to march
to
> be in regular band...and the real players were happy to play in the summer
> instead of get time off...most switched over to a brass instrument just for
> that
> season...but our school was way to small to have both separate...they HAD to
> make it like that or no one would march...and our band director made
marching
> just like the regular band with a little different style...we still played
> stuff that was hard to the older kids and challenging...the younger ones
> probably

Told this before. My younger kid played trumpet from elementary thru junior
high. When he got to high school he wanted to play trumpet in the concert
band.
To do that, he discovered he had to play in the marching band. At first the
kid
was "bummed" by the prospect. Then he got to band camp: a weeklong orgy of
staying up all night, rehearsing during the day--including learning the
choreography for the numbers--and finally dunking the newly-appointed drum
major
in the lake. Adventures involving duct tape also were involved. Nobody died,
and only one person got arrested: a 15-year-old kid who was caught with a
joint
and was later expelled from a rehab in Pennsylvania for having a teddy bear
(awwww how cute) full of cocaine.

The first year he went, he got home on Saturday afternoon, lay down for a nap,
and woke up 15 hours later.

My son voluntarily took himself off trumpet because he wanted to solo, so he
switched to marching baritone: a trumpet on steroids.

He did indeed get to play with the concert band, and they were really pretty
good. As for the switch between types of instruments, we had one kid who was
on
the drum line for marching band, then in the concert band season went back to
his
primary instrument, the oboe. Now, if it had been a Heckelphone, they might
have
heard him....

Every year the Board of Ed tried to cut the band's funding. And every year
the
band parents showed up like a regiment at Fredericksburg and reminded the
Board
that it's really sort of difficult to field a football team if you don't show
up
with a band. It never failed....

Ken
--
Kenneth Wolman
Proposal Development Department
Room SW334
Sarnoff Corporation
609-734-2538

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