Klarinet Archive - Posting 000051.txt from 2005/07

From: "David Renaud" <manonrivet@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Long Concert
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 18:11:02 -0400

Ok chaps..........beat this

A trio gig in Pembroke, Canada for the opening of a new store.
Tuba, guitar, clarinet, mobile and acoustic. Clarinet lead,
clarinet solo, guitar solo, head on each tune.

12 hours of 40 min on and 20min off. Being mobile,
all tunes from memory, and we made a challenge of not
repeating a tune. Yes, that was 12 consecutive sets.

Why do it........because it was there......(and the $was very good)

The quartet version of this group is at razz.ca
Sound samples there......and a funny pic or two.
Would I do it again....hmmm.....do I love the abuse.

Cheers
Dave Renaud
drjazz.ca

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Webler" <webler@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 5:49 PM
Subject: RE: [kl] Long Concert

> During my time in the Air Force I marched a 5 mile parade in
> Salt Lake City and then performed an hour and half Big Band
> concert afterwards. Since I was playing percussion then that
> meant that I played the entire parade route and then the
> concert.
>
> Jay Webler
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Lytthans [mailto:lytthans@-----.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 5:17 PM
> To: Klarinet Digest (Mail)
> Subject: [kl] Long Concert
>
> My longest concert was performed when Richard Nixon was
> president. The
> Pomona Concert Band was playing for a birthday celebration for
> him at his
> home in Whittier. We played a two hour program, at end of which
> he was
> supposed to show up. Well, his motorcade was some two hours
> late, so we
> kept playing. Fortunately we had the full book there, so new
> music was
> available. Lots of sight reading and some duplication, but not
> much. I
> think we did some ten Sousa marches, overtures galore, Clarinet
> Candy twice,
> etc. Lots of tired chops in the band, which was big enough (90
> players) to
> allow us to spell each other. A four hour concert for a somewhat
>
> questionable president, in retrospect, was not the best
> afternoon in my
> career. As concertmaster I did shake his hand, though. He said
> that he had
> played clarinet as a kid in junior/senior high for a while. His
> library and
> burial site is only four miles from my house, but I've never
> visited it. I
> have played smany concerts there over the years, but never
> stepped foot into
> the museum, or visited the graves. There are three graves, i
> understand,
> The Prez, Pat and his famous dog Checkers.
>
> -------------------
> Jim Lytthans
> Anaheim, CA
>
> Clarionet. An instrument of torture operated by a person with
> cotton in his
> ears. There are two instruments worse than the clarionet - two
> clarionets.
>
> Ambrose Bierce: Devil's Dictionary 1911
>
>
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