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Author: diz
Date: 2005-07-04 01:30
Well, due to a quirk hemisphere ... it's the 4th July here.
To my American buddies ... happy July 4.
diz
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: Bob A
Date: 2005-07-04 03:39
Thanks diz, did you ever get your Contra? Suggestion was: Diz, just get a Corporation to sponsor you and let them pay for it. Yah might try Vegimite!
Bob A
Post Edited (2005-07-04 03:43)
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Author: diz
Date: 2005-07-04 04:45
Bob A ... considering who made that suggestion I took it with a "grain of salt", but still on the hunt
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2005-07-04 14:35
Thank you Diz , GBK and others with good wishes. Let us all have faith and hopes for solutions/alleviations of our numerous problems and challenges. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Lisa
Date: 2005-07-05 03:03
Thank you diz for starting this thread. And leave it to GBK to impress us with his holiday graphics. 
I'm sitting here watching Boston's fireworks and concert on CBS and am just marveling at how beautiful their fireworks are this year--they light up the whole darn sky!
I watched A Capitol Fourth earlier on PBS and have to admit that IMHO Boston put on a better show that DC all-around-- both in music and fireworks. They have a lot of the specially shaped ones--circles, smilies and that Saturn-shaped thing.
When I hear the NSO play 1812 Overture (from the middle on) I always think, "I'm so glad I don't have to play that this year!" The community band I'm in now starts summer break July 1st, but I've played 1812 with a couple of other community bands in the past.
I saw in another thread that our own John Moses was playing in NYC tonight and it was televised, but I tuned in too late. Did anyone watch it? What'd I miss???
Here's a random question about the song of the day, Stars and Stripes Forever. Why are there more grace notes in the first strain of the orchestral version compared to the band version??? I've always wondered that but only now have had the chance to ask...
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Author: clarinetwife
Date: 2005-07-05 14:36
And I've always wondered why they didn't score the thing for A clarinet. Sure the timbre of the Bb is better for the march, but it sure would lay better on the A!
We went to our local Fourth of July parade, and there was not a clarinet to be seen anywhere. The only musicians were the Scottish pipers and the Hare Krishnas with their percussion. No marching band! On a brighter note, at the end of a hot parade the fire department came by spraying plenty of water, and the Union folks were handing out popsicles, and they also had Union people on big flatbed trailiers with Super Soakers. That's a good community relations activity! There is no musicians local here, though.
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Author: clarinetist04
Date: 2005-07-05 14:47
Yeah, when I played the orchestral version of Stars and Stripes I wrote it out (later to find out it's really just the band part with a few different licks) for A clarinet because the Bb part is so darn rediculous. Absolutely horrible arrangement of that piece. Btw, I don't remember there being more grace notes than the band part but I could be mistaken.
I live outside Washington, D.C. and we didn't even get our own broadcast, we got the NYC fireworks. Go figure.
Still on the patriotic note, I listened to Adams' Transmigration of Souls...lovely piece.
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Author: Clarinetgirl06
Date: 2005-07-05 17:19
I was so busy yesterday that I didn't get to practice! Oh well, beautiful fireworks and celebrating the Independence of our Country is more important than if I get to practice for 1 day. Hope everyone's was great!
By the way: during the finale, I was singing the 1812 Overature out loud and I played 2nd clarinet on that piece so I was sadly producing the harmony instead of the melody when I was singing and I couldn't remember the melody. It was funny!
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2005-07-05 17:36
I cant speak to the orch. version of S&S F, but the several piccolos in bands do them well, and prob most orchs, do it with one picc, just thots. The newer version of the S S Banner, tubas and bass cl ! at the start, in both 4/4 and 3/4, is in frequent use now in our "heartland". Comments? Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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