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Author: wjk
Date: 2004-06-11 14:38
What have been some of your musical "moments of wonder," or epiphanies related to music/instrument playing? I recently started playing on a "perfect" Chedeville mouthpiece-- and after 30 years--can say "this is it." The first time I played on it---the perfect, buttery soft tone with no resistance---it was a musical "moment of wonder!"
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Author: William
Date: 2004-06-11 14:44
As a middle school teacher of 34 yrs, I had many "musical moments of wonder"--as in, I wonder what I will hear next...............
(BTW, I wouldn't trade any of those years for anything)
Post Edited (2004-06-11 14:47)
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2004-06-11 15:24
The first time I improvised in my section, and had someone in the brass answer... with the director's approval, no less!
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2004-06-12 05:20
Fooling with the recorder when I was in sixth grade -- I had been "studying" it in my music class and had learned a few fingerings, but I hadn't yet put the logic of the notes together. Then one Saturday while I was goofing off with it I somehow managed to play part of "Camptown Races," and somehow it all just clicked. Not just the song, but the rudiments of theory somehow came together in my mind -- scales, arpeggios, the sequence of notes, intervals, all those dots were on their way to becoming connected in my mind. From then on, music made sense.
The following year I signed up for band and picked the clarinet. That first weekend I had my horn, I had quite a few things figured out. I just felt at home with it in my hands.
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Author: Anon
Date: 2004-06-12 10:45
The first time I heard a live professional orchestra - my mom took me to Orchestra Hall in Detroit on a Sunday afternoon when I was 8 or so and we sat in the balcony. I couldn't believe human beings were making such an amazing sound. It was when I decided I had to be a musician.
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Author: LeWhite
Date: 2004-06-12 13:18
Not that long ago, I was in a class that had a guest lecturer. The class was only about 10 or so, and the guest lecturer was speaking about sound and it's relationship to the human being - physical, emotional, and all the amazing things we never really knew about. We spoke about 'listening without an agena' and he played a (not so perfect) 5th on the piano. After a few goes, I realised what an incredible sound it was!
Two of my friends and I understood and thought it was an amzing experience, howveer the rest of the class didn't really understand and thought it was all BS.
Then later, in the practise room, I listened to myself without an agenda and allowed for a purely human reaction to what I hear. And I swear, the clarinet on it's own, interweaving with silence, is the most soulful and touching sound. Since then I've never listened to any sound the way I used to. Everytime I hear music, I am amazed and dazzled by it. It's like I am hearing for the first time.
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Author: matilda
Date: 2004-06-12 14:51
Mine came a few years ago now, I was playing the Entr'acte for Carmen out of Clarinet Solos, volume 1 (Chester) in my lesson and suddenly it all made sense. I realised that music was more than just reading whats on the page and since then I haven't looked back.
Tilly.
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Author: Markus Wenninger
Date: 2004-06-12 18:29
Listening to Anthony Braxton on his alto, live. Also live, a certain clarinet solo in a Lutoslawski piano-concerto. Coming across my first multiphonic, after reading Bartolozzi´s "New Sounds for Woodwinds".
M.
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Author: Woodwinder
Date: 2004-06-13 06:29
My clarinet had been stolen toward the end of my college days, and I was too poor to buy anything but a recorder. So I began on recorder, mostly without music, which was a new approach. Then got married, had children, didn't do anything musically for about 5 years. For no good reason, while the kids were napping, I picked up the recorder again and played The Rainbow Connection---the never-ending version. I got so filled up with emotion, it was like a flashing sign that told me to get back into the music. Now I'm teaching sax, clarinet, and flute.
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