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Author: Cuisleannach
Date: 2006-11-26 20:22
After the somewhat depressing thread "choosing to become a pro" I'd like to propose a thread to highlight some of the good things happening in music, so........
What are you doing in your corner of the world to make sure clarinetistry will not become a lost art?
-Randy
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2006-11-26 20:30
- I play myself.
- I have convinced at least one ex-clarinetist to resume playing.
- I buy CDs and score music.
- I participate in that BBoard. ![[wink]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie3.gif)
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Ben
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Author: JJAlbrecht
Date: 2006-11-26 23:29
I play in a community band. So does my daughter. We are in the Clarinet section together.
I spent a week last summer at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in the Adult Concert Band. I might shoot for the Clarinet choir, there, too if it's available next year.
I helped out at the local elementary school, especially witht the beginners in the band. The director is a low-brass guy, and appreciated the help with woodwinds.
I am contemplating signing up for more lessons for myself.
I have passed my love of music to my daughter, who is now better at clarinet than I ever was.
I support the local orchestra (Detroit Symphony).
I take my daughter and my wife to good performances localy, featuring clarinet works. We went recently to hear Andrew Marriner play K. 622 at the DSO, as his dad (Sir Neville) conducted.
I encouraged my daughter to start giving lessons to beginners, both to earn money for her musical expenses, and to help out newbies.
I go regularly to Detroit Chamber Winds concerts.
I write a check every week to one of the DSO clarinetists, who teaches my daughter privately.
I will be getting a new Cadenza, probably before Christmas, from the local dealer who is making a special effort to get ne in for me. I believe in supporting local businesses whenever possible.
I am a member of this group, and support the sponsors who advertise here.
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Author: jmcgann
Date: 2006-11-26 23:37
• Studying and practicing clarinet (started in August)
• Listening deeply to the masters
• Jamming on guitar (which I've been playing a LOT longer) with Billy Novick
• Trying to write interesting parts in orchestral arrangements with my band The Wayfaring Strangers (have done Pops gigs w/ Boston and Utah, also New Philharmonia Newton MA)
• Encouraging Berklee clarinetists (where I teach) to take my Django/Gypsy Jazz Ensemble
• Playing for interested friends great jazz and classical recordings, i.e. one friend who hadn't heard the Hindemith Quintet or Kenny Davern (w/ Ruby Braff) and really enjoyed both!
www.johnmcgann.com
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Author: bcl1dso
Date: 2006-11-27 02:14
Hey JJ do you mind me asking who your daughters teacher is? (which of the DSO clarinetists) Just wondering. ; ) I live around here too and take from one as well
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Author: awm34
Date: 2006-11-27 02:18
Subscribe to the Toledo Symphony & Toledo Opera.
Study each week with a superb teacher who plays in the Symphony.
Practice each week with the local (Maumee) Community Band.
Get together periodically with my Chicago and Florida pals to play duets (Florida pal plays bass at age 86).
Have revived a performance tradition established by the original owners of our residence performing for our neighbors al fresco.
Continue my daily struggle toward proficiency.
Alan Messer
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Author: Grant
Date: 2006-11-27 02:34
My wife and I play in two community bands both over one hundred years old.
We also play wen we can with my University Alumni band and are working on a Christmas Concert for the retirement community where she works.I wish we had time to do more but we both work full time.
Peace on Earth and May You always have a reed that PLAYS.
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Author: JJAlbrecht
Date: 2006-11-27 13:40
My daughter studies with Larry Liberson, the assistant principal clarinet/E-flat clarinet of the DSO. He's a really interesting guy, and a great teacher. My daughter told me that he was able to explain how to fix her embouchure after only a few lessons, something she was not able to get from her previous lessons over the course of a number of years.
Jeff
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2006-11-27 15:08
It's not the "art of clarinetistry" that's being lost -- it's the audience for clarinetistry that has been disappearing. There are plenty of fine players out there and many more are on the way -- but hardly anybody is listening to them play.
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Author: Gandalfe
Date: 2006-11-27 15:41
My wife and I support the local community band and theater. And my company matches every dollar we contribute. Theaters (and thus pit bands) are failing all over the place as TiVo and video games take over the entertainment dollars. Vote with your dollars.
By the way, the community band provides a number of professional teachers with many students. And the guy that runs our jazz ensemble program has over 15 students a week from that program. It seems that many late bloomers want to learn to improvise. :o)
Jim and Suzy
Pacifica Big Band
Seattle, Washington
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Author: clarinets1
Date: 2006-11-27 20:04
I buy CDs, not burn songs or download illegally. I go see live bands and orchestras, i am currently taking lessons, i work in a music store and play wherever i can.
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Author: Merlin
Date: 2006-11-27 20:29
clarinets1 wrote:
> I buy CDs, not burn songs or download illegally. I go see live
> bands and orchestras, i am currently taking lessons, i work in
> a music store and play wherever i can.
I would say you are doing the right things!
Thumbs up!
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Author: Sylvain
Date: 2006-11-27 21:19
According to my girlfriend, I buy too much clarinet equipment and own too many recordings of Mozart clarinet concerto; thanks to you now I can tell her I am simply supporting the arts
-S
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Sylvain Bouix <sbouix@gmail.com>
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Author: Mike Blinn
Date: 2006-11-28 15:54
I subscribe to my local orchestra (the Hartford Symphony)'s masterwork series, and I am the bass clarinetist in my community band. I recently donated a hard-rubber Noblet with Vandoren B45 mouthpiece to a young player whose mother wrote this board for help.
Many of us have instruments we rarely use. What good do they do sitting in a closet?
Mike Blinn
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Author: EuGeneSee
Date: 2006-11-28 16:39
I am a member of our local community band where I have been playing bass drum while (after 4 decades+ of not playing the clarinet) taking lessons and developing my embouchure muscles; I'm now slowly scooting into playing some of the easier stuff on Bb, Eefer, alto, and bass clarinet.
I have, over most of this year been scrounging up and buying on "that" auction site sets of score & parts -- so far I have donated about 50 sets to build a library for our band (we had only about a dozen pieces from which to choose).
Bought and donated to the band several pieces of used percussion equipment (we had none and had to borrow it) including a bass drum, 2 snares, a pair of concert cymbals, concert bells, and an assortment of small percussion accessories. Sadly, I missed a set of tympanis (26", 28", & 30") at a flea market about 100 mi. from here . . . they were in decent shape & playable (2 needed new heads) and sold for $150 for the set. Sigh!
Buy and fix up (definately not an "overhaul") student clarinets, some of which I sell cheaply to local students, others which I donate to the local homeschool band or through band directors/teachers to needy students.
All of the above is really a small contribution to help the art of music, but in a sparsely populated rural Ozarks area like this, it makes a big difference. . . and it introduces a lot of kids and adults to other genres of music besides geetar, fiddle, dulcimer, and sangin' thru ur nose!
Eu
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Author: bob49t
Date: 2006-11-28 19:47
Every time I'm involved in a chamber recital, I make a point of introducing the Bass Clarinet as a solo instrument. I know others on the BB do also. Most people are fascinated by the introduction to the instrument, which makes sounds they recognise but until now could not identify the propagating machinery. To see little "light bulbs" going on as they recognise eg "Sugar Plum" or some haunted house movie, is a delight.
A bassoon colleague and I will be rolling out some early cello duets on bsn and bass cl, and possibly some jazzy duets this year, who knows ?
I also like to play "Immer Kleiner" occasionally as it's knocks the stuffing out of a staid audience ...and because music doesn't have to be straight laced, all the time, for Gawd's sake !
BobT
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Author: ginny
Date: 2006-11-28 20:16
I have raised a son who is now a clarinet performance major, although I don't think it's likely his career as he is also doing a math major and may switch to physics (rather than math.)
I don't see the clarinet as dying out like the accordion for that matter. A significant number of my friends have clarinet playing children.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2006-11-28 20:47
The accordion is dying out? OMG!
Honestly - where did you get that idea? If I were to set up a two-man band, I might pick accordion and clarinet...
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Ben
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Author: jmcgann
Date: 2006-11-28 21:28
Caution: off topic!
Quote:
I don't see the clarinet as dying out like the accordion for that matter.
Do an internet search for Joe Derrane. It may not be the world's most popular instrument (especially the button accordion) but it the right hands, it's as alive as you and me!
www.johnmcgann.com
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Author: ginny
Date: 2006-11-28 22:25
Accordion popularity or the lack of it is an endless topic here... certainly compared to it's hay day. I am also helping to keep accordion from dying out totally by playing that with a Klezmer band that also plays video game music.
They don't even make a good quality 'ladies' accordion anymore, so I have to have old ones rebuilt. Not dead but the guitar sure did make some major hit points.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.music.makers.squeezebox?lnk=li
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Author: ginny
Date: 2006-11-28 22:29
Is it off topic if I play accordion using my "clarinet" stop?
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Author: EuGeneSee
Date: 2006-11-29 02:48
You will be OK if you refrain from using any vibrato and sit in the clarinet section of your local community band. Eu
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2006-11-29 16:28
bawa wrote:
> Is the accordion out? Here they have an accordion ensemble in
> school. And Bilbao has an accordion orchestra.
And when I was young (pre-teen & teen) I started out playing bass & rhythm guitars in polka bands - and every polka band I ever played in had an accordion in it.
Good money, too, along with great food and drink at those parish and community halls! You either learned fast (in more than one sense of the word!) or you were gone.
I see polka bands are still going strong (just walk through Hamtramck in the evening )
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2006-11-29 17:48
I'm helping by playing the clarinet via rectials etc. And also teaching it.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: Meri
Date: 2006-11-29 18:19
A number of things:
Buying CDs, instead of downloading mp3s. (except for music where a CD recording is unavailable)
Making recordings with my pianist with a digital recorder, both of repetoire I play for concerts and pieces and studies for my students.
Playing concerts regularly
Using original sheet music for concerts.
Encouraging students to buy CDs and use original sheet music.
Composing and arranging music
Teaching lessons
Holding student concerts.
That's what I can think of for now.
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Author: bob49t
Date: 2006-11-30 00:14
"via rectials"....great Peter....that I have to see.........a true wind player then...??? sorry 'bout that...late toilet humour.
RT
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2006-11-30 09:14
Bob49t, thanks. Come and see one of the recitals i have next year in London. Or see me do the Finzi in Birmingham in Febuary.
Peter Cigleris
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