Author: fskelley
Date: 2014-07-24 06:23
Not sure why, but today I was thinking about trills. My HS band director called them "woodling". As in, "NO MORE WOODLING!". And it's hard to argue with his position. There must have been 20 or 30 of us on clarinet, and some songs would START with 4 or more solid measures of sustained high note trills. He'd cut us off after a half second of that, and tell us not to trill it, ever. So it would become just a sustained regular note. I think I recall once in a great while he would allow 1 or 2 players to trill, maybe on odd numbered Thursdays.
So... 1) Anybody else here with similar experience, or maybe you're the director who kills trills? 2) Do they still write and play band music with so many trills? 3) Do you think clarinet music in general has too many? not enough?
I have (almost) nothing but fond memories of Mr. Montgomery. We gave him so much abuse and so little respect (that we let show). He was a gentleman and a fine teacher. I hope our schools have many more like him in the trenches. And no, I don't think I want to be 17 again.
Stan in Orlando
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