Klarinet Archive - Posting 000097.txt from 2009/07

From: Marla Kasdorf <swede46us@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] doublers - help!
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:45:46 -0400

I am doing this now for Cabaret ( Community Theater) and simply informed th=
e stage mgr. that 10 min. is required for the band before doors open....see=
ms no one ever complained to her before and she was quite cooperative. The =
music director is gone and the Artistic Director "doesn't get it" re: reed =
instruments. I also play with the marches played pre-show.

--- On Mon, 7/20/09, Walter Grabner <grabnerwg@-----.com> wrote:

> From: Walter Grabner <grabnerwg@-----.com>
> Subject: Re: [kl] doublers - help!
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Date: Monday, July 20, 2009, 9:55 AM
> Dave McClune says:
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> "As for the '20s music, play long tones in the key and
> chord structure
> of the music.=A0 I tend to ignore idiot directors and do
> what is
> professionally required of me.=A0 If they continue to be
> a pain, I just
> do not play for them again."
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> Ha Ha. Great comment Dave. I'm right there with you!
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> Walter
> www.clarinetxpress.com
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> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:36 AM, David McClune<dmcclune@-----.edu>
> wrote:
> > I get to the hall an hour or more early and assemble
> each instrument and move them to the stands. =A0The warm up
> of the body happened at home earlier that day and at the
> hall I am simply checking each instrument to make sure there
> are no mechanical glitches. =A0Since doubling implies playing
> on cold horns anyhow I do not worry about compulsivly
> warming up each horn. =A0However...I do put the top joint of
> the oboe and the barrel on top joint of the clarinet down my
> shirt. =A0I let body heat =A0warm up the instruments to reduce
> the risk of cracking!
> >
> > As for the '20s music, play long tones in the key and
> chord structure of the music. =A0I tend to ignore idiot
> directors and do what is professionally required of me. =A0If
> they continue to be a pain, I just do not play for them
> again.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > Dr. David McClune
> > Professor of Woodwinds
> > Director of Bands
> > Union University-1862
> > 1050 Union University Drive
> > Jackson, TN 38305
> >
> > Office-731-661-5294
> > dmcclune@-----.edu
> > www.mcclunemouthpiece.com
> >>>> MICHAEL MARMER LINDA MARMER <mlmarmer@-----.net>
> 07/20/09 7:01 AM >>>
> > Maybe the performing group could perform the pre show
> 1920's music?
> >
> > Mike
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Walter Grabner" <grabnerwg@-----.com>
> > To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 9:52 PM
> > Subject: Re: [kl] doublers - help!
> >
> >
> > I have played many shows where it was difficult
> getting into the pit,
> > past the other instrumentalists, and avoiding tripping
> all over the
> > wires for the stand lights.
> >
> > Trying to walk in all at once, carrying say, a
> clarinet, a flute, a
> > tenoro sax, and a bass clarinet, is a prescription for
> disaster.
> >
> > I have usually arrived early, set up the instruments
> in place, stored
> > all the cases backstage, then warmed up quietly, and
> be ready fifteen
> > minutes before curtain.
> >
> > I do agree that extended practicing, playing cadenzas,
> etc. are out of
> > place in front of the audience.
> >
> > Anyway, that's my objection to warming up backstage.
> >
> > Walter Grabner
> > www.clarinetxpress.com
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Karl Krelove<karlkrelove@-----.net>
> > wrote:
> >> What the director isn't getting is the extra
> complication of multiple
> >> instruments. The singers undoubtedly *do* warm up
> - backstage - while the
> >> twenties music is being piped in out front. No
> doubt in a community show
> >> the
> >> director may not be especially aware of any
> problem he's causing. The
> >> brass
> >> players, assuming they aren't doubling, probably
> don't feel the problem as
> >> acutely, either.
> >>
> >> You say in your original post, "Our conductor has
> received more than his
> >> share of grief from the director and says that he
> has to 'choose his
> >> battles' and that in the long run he'd lose this
> one anyway." Does this
> >> mean
> >> that the issue hasn't even been brought up to the
> director? Before anyone
> >> considers quitting over this, the director needs
> at least to be aware that
> >> it's a problem.
> >>
> >> In the end, if the issue has at least been brought
> to the director's
> >> attention without getting a workable
> accommodation, you have two choices -
> >> find a way to live with it or don't play. If the
> director refuses to work
> >> with you, he (she?) won't be the first community
> theater director who has
> >> overplayed his authority and damaged a community
> organization's
> >> cohesiveness
> >> (from the sound of it, he/she has already made the
> pit conductor feel
> >> disrespected) in the interest of showing his/her
> more elevated sense of
> >> art.
> >> Maybe next year's director will be more sensitive
> to the world that exists
> >> beyond a foot away from his nose.
> >>
> >> Karl
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: josh stein [mailto:jstein53@-----.net]
> >>> Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 3:49 PM
> >>> To: klarinet@-----.org
> >>> Subject: Re: [kl] doublers - help!
> >>>
> >>> of course musicians need to warmup like the
> singers in the show. if
> >>> the
> >>> director does not understand that one needs to
> warmup before they start
> >>> playing the real thing, than the director is a
> moron.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Rich Gordley" <rgordley@-----.net>
> >>> Subject: [kl] doublers - help!
> >>> >
> >>> >>OK gang, I need some opinions on a
> ridiculous situation.
> >>> >>
> >>> >>I'm currently playing a run of "Hello
> Dolly!" with a community
> >>> >>theater. This is a volunteer gig which
> means the musicians get
> >>> >>treated worse than usual. Last night
> we were told that we can no
> >>> >>longer warm up in the pit because the
> director wants to play 1920s
> >>> >>(?!) music over the speakers in the
> auditorium while the patrons are
> >>> >>arriving.
> >>
> >>
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