Klarinet Archive - Posting 001151.txt from 1999/04

From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] ears and lips: nose?
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:04:22 -0400

on 4/27/99 5:24 PM, William Fogle wrote:

> Now, what is hard for me is playing with brass right behind me (I have
>started played in an orchestra for the first time in my life).

and Tony Pay added:

>It's a problem. I once sat in front of the D trumpet in the Alpine
>Symphony.

I offer the following:

"There are two sides to a trumpet player's personality. There is the
one that lives only to lay waste to the woodwinds and strings, leaving
them lying blue and lifeless alongside the swath of destruction that is
the trumpet's fury.

And then there's the dark side."

Cheers!

David
(who sits in front of the horns - there's another joke there somewhere)

David Niethamer
Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
dnietham@-----.edu
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/

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