Klarinet Archive - Posting 000097.txt from 2005/05

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: The Clarinet was: RE: [kl] Ludendorff about Mozart and freemasons
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 14:31:06 -0400

On Wed, 04 May 2005 23:53:51 -0400, Adam Michlin <amichlin@-----.com>
wrote:

>I was lucky enough in high school to have at my school a state funded
>artist in residence professional jazz saxophone player. I'll never forget
>(I was probably about 14) going up to him and saying:
>
>Me: "I want to learn jazz clarinet."
>Him: "There's no such thing as jazz clarinet."
>Me: "Huh?"
>Him: "There's only jazz music."
>

That's at least a little more helpful than an exchange from
alt.music.clarinet this week:

Query: "I want to learn to play klezmer."
Response: "One does not learn to play klezmer. One must grow up with it."

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Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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