Author: fskelley
Date: 2014-07-24 21:22
I may have overstated how many clarinets, but there were a lot of us! Maybe 1/3 had been involuntarily reassigned from sax or trombone (always too many of those?).
I always took Mr. M's adjustments as swipes at the composers. As in, "Just because you write something stupid doesn't mean we have to play it that way." Kind of fits with my philosophy of music and life, so maybe I read too much into it.
I agree that group trills CAN be done well. The right notes, similar trilling speeds, back off the volume especially if a lot of trillers, perhaps limit how many trillers. Then decide if it's really better with the trill than without, and choose accordingly. So, is newly written band music as full of trills as what we were handed in 1968?
Actually, I was 14-16 in most of HS band, not 17. I agree 23 would be a better choice for a return visit with some or all of what I know now. But it still sounds like a recipe for turmoil. Many fantasies sound better than they might go in reality.
Stan in Orlando
EWI 4000S with modifications
|
|
The Clarinet BBoard
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
