Klarinet Archive - Posting 000127.txt from 2007/11

From: Christopher MacIver <revicamc@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Reading music instead of memorizing
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:43:10 -0500


--- Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:20:54 -0800 (PST), "Michael
> Rasmussen"
> <mikeraz@-----.com> wrote:
> > Over the weekend during my first ever recital I
> wondered why the bulk of musicians
> > (meaning aside from popular music performers) read
> music during performance rather
> > than playing from memory.
>

<snip>

Almost 20 years ago, I played in a outdoor "concert"
(everyone was mostly sight-reading) with a band whose
"director" was somewhat unorthodox. At the end of the
performance, the director thanked the audience for
attending, and then announced the for our last piece,
we would play The Washington Post March. Since I was
sitting up front, I told the director, "John, we can't
do that - we don't have the sheet music - you never
gave it to us", to which he replied, "You played the
piece many times before - you know how it goes". Then
he made a downward motion with his hand, giving the
downbeat .....

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