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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2009-01-01 06:41
I'm in the Finger Lakes region of New York enjoying post-New Year times with my wife, mother, youngest son, sister, and brother-in-law (sister & brother-in-law my gracious hosts). Hope you are all enjoying yourself as much as I am!
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Author: 78s2CD
Date: 2009-01-01 07:07
I'm originally from the Finger Lakes region, now in Arizona, wishing you and yours and everyone a happy new year!
Jim
James C. Lockwood
Rio Rico AZ
"I play a little clarinet"
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2009-01-01 07:50
All the best to you, Mark, and your entire family from all of us here in NYC.
The New Year looks bright for Broadway 2009, and live music!
I hope all of you remain Healthy, Happy, and fully employed for 2009...
and beyond.
JJM
Légère Artist
Clark W. Fobes Artist
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2009-01-01 11:53
Happy New Year from London! With a slight headache.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: beejay
Date: 2009-01-01 12:15
All best wishes for 2009 to you as well Mark, and please remember me to your nice son, the conductor. We lost touch, unfortunately.
bj
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Author: myshineyblackjoy
Date: 2009-01-01 14:02
Happy New Year from the frigid state of Michigan. May everyone have a great year!!!!!! I know mine is shaping up I found a local orchestra to join.YEAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Pamela J.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2009-01-01 14:18
Happy New Year! Kevin and I managed to stay awake until nearly 10:30 last night. Our bacchanale consisted of sparkling cider, because we don't much like the taste of booze anyway and we mightily dislike the effects. Since no celebrations woke us at midnight, I think the weather (26 degrees F. at 10:30 p.m., with 60 mph wind gusts) probably curtailed the local Watch Night festivities, outdoors in tents and under canopies. Ms. Shadow Cat stayed dug into the bed all night long. Guess she decided she didn't need to patrol the house for monsters because they were all out knocking down trees. I hope nobody had to be outdoors with a wooden clarinet on a night like that!
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
Post Edited (2009-01-01 14:19)
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Author: Merlin_Williams
Date: 2009-01-01 14:29
Happy New Year from Stratford Ontario!
We had an all day Harry Potter marathon. Watched all 5 movies on DVD. It took twelve and a half hours. I think I wore a groove in our leather couch.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2009-01-01 15:10
Happy new year to all, and to 2008 a well-deserved good night.
May we have all good reeds for 2009.
Ken Shaw
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Author: GBK
Date: 2009-01-01 15:22
The best to all in 2009.
We spent the last part of 2008 watching the New York Philharmonic's New Year's Eve concert.
Stanley got a well deserved solo bow after the Overture to La Forza ...GBK
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2009-01-01 18:03
Well said by Y'all, H N Y from chilly OKLA ! Getting prepared for watching my Mich. State vs GA, then Rose Bowl, of course. Had a party with our local Rhythm Makers playing old-timey tunes [retirement home residents don't do much dancing tho], and I played a few choruses of A L S and a bit more at dinner. Forgot the NY Phil dern it, watched LSU triumph. Cheers, Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2009-01-01 18:46
"Stanley got a well deserved solo bow after the Overture to La Forza ...GBK"
Well, yes! He did get a well-deserved solo bow, IMO more for his 60 years of exceptional service to the Philharmonic and to the clarinet, than for his playing of the Forza solo last night! I've watched the program twice now in HD ond on two very good speaker systems. What struck me most was the thinness of his sound and the "wobble." Still amazing for his age, but underscores the wisdom of his decision to retire at this time.
My wife, who watched the program with me, thought it ought to have been called the Dave Finlayson show! I wonder if the fact that he (second trombone) was on camera so much -- more than any of the woodwind soloists, except Langevin (flute) -- had anything to do with his new found notoriety (the Gilbert Kaplan brouhaha).
I received "Mozart in the Jungle" as a Christmas gift from one of my students--it is now impossible for me to watch the Philharmonic without referencing the book.
Happy New Year to all -- a long and happy retirement to Stanley Drucker!
Larry
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Author: GBK
Date: 2009-01-01 19:22
LarryBocaner wrote:
> Well, yes! He did get a well-deserved solo bow, IMO more for
> his 60 years of exceptional service to the Philharmonic and to
> the clarinet, than for his playing of the Forza solo
> last night! I've watched the program twice now in HD ond on two
> very good speaker systems. What struck me most was the thinness
> of his sound and the "wobble." Still amazing for his age, but
> underscores the wisdom of his decision to retire at this time.
Agreed. As I am a very big admirer of Stanley on so many levels and especially for his long and illustrious career, I hesitated to critique his current playing. Yes Larry, his sound, while very distinctive and never having quite the "sweetness" of other players, is starting to get a bit raspy and less centered.
Nevertheless, I just hope that when I reach his age, I still have the strength or ambition to even up open my case, let alone play another full season with scheduled solo performances.
The best to Stanley in 2009.
> My wife, who watched the program with me, thought it
> ought to have been called the Dave Finlayson show!
> I wonder if the fact that he (second trombone) was on
> camera so much -- more than any of the woodwind soloists,
> except Langevin (flute) -- had anything to do with his new found
> notoriety (the Gilbert Kaplan brouhaha
I was too busy watching Cynthia Phelps, Mindy Kaufman and the new blonde in the violin section. ![[whoa]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie10.gif)
...GBK
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Author: Avie
Date: 2009-01-01 19:59
A nice area. I worked in Webster and skied at Bristol Mountain not too far from the Finger Lakes in 1998. Happy New Year.....ATV
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2009-01-01 20:53
Happy New Year to you all. My wife and I are spending a few days in Ocean City MD. We we're supposed to have another couple join us but she got very ill and couldn't make it so we had a great dinner and wine by ourselves, managed to watch the NY Phil program, take a little nap and watch the big ball come down. We were going to go to the fantastic light display in OC, second largest in the country only to Disney World, but that was cancelled because of the 30-60 mile and hour winds. Didn't even have a hangover this morning, not bad for the beginning of the new year. That's a good sign, go 2009.
May all your reeds be stable, or at least good. Would you settle for a decent one just once in a while. ESP
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Author: weberfan
Date: 2009-01-01 21:12
Happy New Year, Mark, from a chilly New York City.
Picked up a CD that includes Sir Charles Villiers Stanford's clarinet concerto (new to me) at Barnes & Noble. Robert Plane is the clarinetist.
And now, after New Year's brunch and a movie, it's time to practice.
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Author: Sylvain
Date: 2009-01-01 23:59
Happy New Year from bitter cold Boston.
Didn't manage to stay up until midnight last night, but I practiced today so that must count for something
Wishing everyone good health and wonderful music making for 2009.
I am playing in a production of Verdi's Otello this year and that will likely be my musical highlight of the year.
--
Sylvain Bouix <sbouix@gmail.com>
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Author: Ryder
Date: 2009-01-02 00:23
Happy New Year from warm, sunny San Antonio, Texas. I wish it were much colder...I bet many of you wish just the opposite.
I get to watch the NY Phil broadcast on my PBS station later tonight around 12:30am. I'm looking forward to it.
____________________
Ryder Naymik
San Antonio, Texas
"We pracice the way we want to perform, that way when we perform it's just like we practiced"
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Author: leonardA
Date: 2009-01-03 04:41
Happy new year to all. I found watching the NY Phil a great way to ring in the new year. I would be grateful to play as well as Stanley Drucker on his worst day.
Leonard
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2009-01-05 12:52
>>I would be grateful to play as well as Stanley Drucker on his worst day.
>>
Yes. I watched the live gala concert on New Year's Eve (enjoyed hearing a good soprano sing "La Vie en Rose" after suffering through Piaf moaning it through the stereo speakers at Second Story Books many dozens of times...) and found Drucker's absence downright . . . well, disconcerting. No knock on the two excellent clarinet players on the stage -- it's just that it hardly seems like the New York Philharmonic without him.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2009-01-05 15:47
"...and found Drucker's absence downright . . . well, disconcerting. No knock on the two excellent clarinet players on the stage ..."
Must have only watched half of the program!
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