Klarinet Archive - Posting 000268.txt from 2005/11

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: WBCC weekend: record trial successful
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 08:09:06 -0500


Finally catching up with the list after getting several weeks behind due to
unavoidable this, that and the other.... On Monday, 24 October, Rien Stein
wrote,

>The World Bass Clarinet Federation organised the
>World Bass Clarinet Conference this weekend. It was
>a beautiful weekend, starting Friday morning, and being
>finished tonight at 8 o'clock

Rien, or anyone else who attended, do you have any further thoughts on the
conference?

I'm especially interested in how the composition competition turned out.
(The assignment was to write a piece between five and eight minutes long,
for bass clarinet and piano.) I thought about entering, but decided not
to, mostly because the piece I wrote dissatisfied me. However, I was also
discouraged by confusion about the entry process.

It took the organizers several weeks to reply to my simple, e-mailed
inquiry about incomplete information on the web site. The reply didn't
answer my question. More information trickled onto the site, but the
instructions remained incomplete until days before the deadline. At the
last minute before the original deadline, the organizers postponed the
entry date by several weeks and told contestants to send the entries not to
England (as originally directed) but to The Netherlands. Moreover, the
instructions required contestants to send the entry fee in euros, *in
cash*. Do people really send cash through the mail in Europe? There's no
way I'd mail cash from a U. S. post office! I never inquired whether
organizers would accept an international money order in euros as cash, but
if so, that information should have been on the web site. From the U. S.
side of the Atlantic, it was hard for me to know what was really going on
in Rotterdam, but I might have worked harder to improve my potential entry
if the contest had looked better organized.

Anyway, I didn't enter, and no harm done, because the music I wrote really
wasn't good enough; but the list of people involved with the event
impressed me and I'm curious about the results.

Lelia Loban
Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus!

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