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Author: brian
Date: 2000-04-19 21:52
This post has nothing to do with where one plans to spend his or her summer months, rather something completely different. What I want to know is what is the "campiest" (if that is even a word) music that you have ever run across for clarinet? For example, perusing through the bargain racks at Southern Music in San Antonio recently, I ran across a set of arrangements of Led Zepplin cover tunes for solo clarinet! I could just see myself at the next family reunion donning a long blond wig, round sun glasses (ala Robert Plant)and proceeding to seranade the "in laws" with a recital they'd not soon forget. "Stairway to Heaven" would probably never be the same again!
What other kind of weird music is out there? I think we'd all could get a chuckle off of this one.
brian
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Author: Jeff
Date: 2000-04-19 23:00
Might not be weird, but there is an arrangement of "Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera for clarinet choir, and I think that would sound awesome.
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Author: Katherine Pincock
Date: 2000-04-20 03:26
Hehehe...nice to know someone else has seen the Led Zeppelin for clarinet book--my music store gave it, along with other music, to me for free when I bought more than $200 worth of scores at the end of second year. Aside from that classic, I also got Batman for clarinet--a whole book of the Batman themes etc. for clarinet. Needless to say, they've both gone to the bottom of my music pile--maybe someday in the future, they'll be useful for a student, but I doubt I'll have call for either in a university performance program ;-)
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Author: steve
Date: 2000-04-20 13:31
there's a wonderful book called "the encyclopedia of bad taste" that is loaded with examples of wonderfully campy things...
possibly the most bizarre example of this I participated in was an arrangement of John Cages 4'33" for mixed clarinet ensemble at a Phi Mu Alpha initiation. Intonation was a bit shaky, but we all finished together....
I seem to remember, many years ago on AMSCO music, a folio of TV theme songs for solo clarinet. The theme to the Mr Ed show actually sounded nice, so I arranged it for clarinet quartet and a solo voice that sang at the end "I am Mr Ed...."
s.
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Author: brian
Date: 2000-04-20 13:53
Steve,
Wouldn't it be fun for a group of us to put on a "camp" recital sometime? Like after a few beers at the Clarinet Fest barbecue?
Brian
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Author: Cathy
Date: 2000-04-20 17:35
My father the trekkie gave me a book of Star Trek themes, I played something once or twice just to humor him :-)
-Cathy
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Author: Contragirl
Date: 2000-04-20 17:42
HAHA! The only tacky music I can think of is (Of course) Disney books, like playing Aladdin and the Lion King. Then again, my friend had a book to Star Wars and he always makes me play that Cantina song. The greatest thing I played was when my band director had "Beer Band" ensemble books for Tuba, Trumpet, Trombone, and 2 clarinets. Good old German Beer band music for the grand opening of WaWa's, an dthat dumb Goose trying to dance... oh dear.
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Author: Kylene
Date: 2000-04-20 21:34
Inna Gadda Da Vita - (is that how you spell it?)
by Iron Butterfly
some friends of mine and I found that one year when I was in HS - we tried to play it once, but it kind of loses its edge when being played by clarinets instead...
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Author: steve
Date: 2000-04-21 13:40
beer band books???!!!!! In 1969, myself and several other freshman band members were assigned selections from a small folio of "German Beer Band Music", published by, I think Fisher, and forced to play for the opening of a local deli while our band director and his wife listened in rapture. The owners of the deli gave us our choice of wurst after the gig. Absolutely nothing changes.
Later, I arranged the music to give polytonal beer band music. tuba and trombone parts were in the key of C, everything else was in F#. We went back to the deli next weekend and played everything fff to the horror of the owners and his clients. after being chased away, he called our director and we all got in trouble....it was worth it...
s.
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Author: Kristen
Date: 2000-04-22 01:37
Since I live in a small town and our nearest music store doesn't really havemore than 10-15 books for clarinet, my dad went to a music store on his travels, and got me a book. #1 Songs of the 90's,Never before had I had a worse playing of"Achy Breaky Heart" and that b-boy song "Everybody Dance Now" :Þ and get this "Boot Scootin' Boogie" :( it was pretty funny.
Kristen
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