Klarinet Archive - Posting 000167.txt from 2012/01

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] community bands-Repertoire
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:35:31 -0500

You may be right. I didn't so much have in mind any difficulty in finding
enough PD music to make the programs. I just suspect that the audiences who
come to community band concerts are expecting a different, perhaps in their
minds more up-to-date kind of programming. I am now in my 60s and my only
band experience outside of the Army Field Band and the concert bands and
wind ensembles I played in throughout public school and Temple University as
a clarinet major has been in bands made up of local pro free-lancers,
usually for special occasions or patriotic holidays. The college bands
played a good deal of hot-off-the-presses stuff as well as an occasional
march (often edited by Fennell), a Holst or Vaughan Williams or Grainger
suite now and then, and a fair sprinkling (maybe one per concert) of
transcriptions. The Field Band at the time played a lot of Broadway and
movie medleys and house arrangements by our own staff as well as
arrangements of big band tunes and some orchestra overtures. The pick-up
free-lance bands played a lot of patriotic music as well as Broadway medleys
and a local arranger's versions of pop and movie tunes from the 40s and
onward. So, I've never been involved in the kind of programming that you've
described and don't really know how an audience would react to it.

I'm interested to know about successful bands that actually program in the
way we're now discussing.

Karl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hns692@-----.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 1:59 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.com
> Subject: Re: [kl] community bands-Repertoire
>
> You're wrong -- at least to the extent that if the group has files that
> contain large numbers of pieces from which to choose, it's pretty easy
> to put together a series of year-around concerts -- free -- and without
> much
> repetition. Some of the music only cycles every six or seven years.
> Personal
> experience. I'm not sure what the definition of a "true" community
> band really is; however, it probably has to be a musical group that is
> built on musicians within a community who come together to play and
> perform music. I think you need to check some local groups to see what
> they're offering to an individual since you haven't been involved in a
> while.
>
> Lee Ann

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