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Author: Brickbinder
Date: 2017-06-06 19:01
I have a question about setting up a recital. Since I retired from the Army as a player, I have taken up composing. Would it be considered rude or egotistical to give a recital of all my own works?
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Author: kdk
Date: 2017-06-06 19:06
I don't see why if part of your purpose is to expose your own work. But would it draw an audience?
Karl
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Author: Joseph Brenner, Jr.
Date: 2017-06-06 20:07
I agree with Karl. Have you played your own music for anybody? If not, why not invite some people, offer some refreshments, play a piece of yours, offer to play audience requests. Then ask them what they thought of your piece and encourage suggestions. There's nothing wrong about playing a recital that includes a work of yours. After all, what did Mozart, Beethoven, and many others do? But announcing a recital of just your own works tempts fate, unless you know you have a strong following. best wishes
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Author: Brickbinder
Date: 2017-06-06 20:13
My plan right now is to do it at a local college. I'm friends with the music department head and we've been talking about the idea of incorporating the recital in with a presentation to composition classes about where the ideas came from and how to write for clarinet, etc. That would build interest and for some students, he recital would be required. I know that just putting up a poster and advertising would probably not draw much of a crowd.
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Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2017-06-06 20:43
I don't think it's a problem at all.
By the very fact that you not only contemplated this situation, but sought out another opinion, you don't strike me as in any of the egotistical fashion you are concerned you may make the appearance of.
Simultaneous displays of art, as player and composer, my painter/artist friend would laugh, are necessary, as she, in gallery, wears 2 hats: one concerns the art of the sale, the other, the art of the piece.
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Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2017-06-06 22:31
The presentation idea is a great one...it almost turns into a master class.
As a student, what I always hated; was when the University would invite some "Pro" to come in. We'd never see or hear from the "Pro" before or after the performance, and would see the "Pro" for the first time during (if we were lucky) the dress rehearsal. As a student, I felt used.
It's one thing to help the students, and then perform or demonstrate for them (as you're suggesting). It's another thing entirely to be a "Pro" and use the students as nothing more than a platform on which to further your career (which is what happened frequently while I was attending university).
In the University's defense - we did (usually in jazz) have great master classes with world-class "Pros" too. The "Pro" would spend time with us in class, then hold a free publicly-available master class with his/her own band, then perform in a ticketed event that evening. It was great stuff.
I think your idea is great - I know that I would have appreciated such an opportunity as a student. I think you should go for it!
Fuzzy
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Author: Brickbinder
Date: 2017-06-06 23:27
Well I definitely think I could give the students a much different perspective from many over performers and composers. I did not get a degree in music, and am mostly self taught. I joined the Army as a clarinet player after passing the audition, barely I might add, and learned the hard way what it took to play professionally. As far as composing, I just get ideas in my head and get on the computer and work them out. I think the master class idea helps build curiosity so people would come to a full recital and I also learned a long time ago if you want to do anything there, sell it as an educational experience for the students.
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