Klarinet Archive - Posting 000381.txt from 2005/02

From: "Zornow, Claudia" <claudia.zornow@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: Clarinet at a Cocktail Party
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:37:49 -0500

Daniel Stover wrote:

> So my brother-in-law's engineering company puts on a cocktail party every
> year at an oil convention. In the past they've always hired a pianist
> through a contractor, but this year his bosses want something different and
> don't want to pay to have a piano brought up to the room. So they were
> thinking of something like clarinet and two or three other instruments.

Do you think they really know what they're asking for? I once
played a gig with a 5-piece Dixie combo at a reception for the
100th anniversary of a local opera house turned event facility.
I think the organizers wanted "period" music but didn't realize
what a 5-piece Dixie combo actually sounds like. We were asked
to play more quietly. What Dixie combo plays quietly???!!!

I hope your brother-in-law's bosses are smarter than this outfit was.

Claudia

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