Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2015-01-27 00:41
(My own Bass Clarinet rant)
From decades of playing bass clarinet in concert bands and orchestras, I have determined that I have the unique ability to STOP THE MUSIC at will! Permit me to elaborate:
The bass clarinetist, as Ben and others will attest, typically has many measures (sometimes entire movements, and of course entire works) of rests. So at a rehearsal he/she sits and waits, and waits, for the opportunity to play those twelve or thirteen exquisite notes allotted him/her for the evening. I have found that, after sitting for half an hour or more waiting to get to the part where I finally have something to play, I can cause ANY conductor to cut us off, simply by grabbing my instrument and preparing to play.
Just by that simple act of pulling my bass clarinet off its stand (K&M, by the way), the conductor will always stop and return to rehearsing that violin section part, or that brass fanfare, or whatever --- anything that doesn't have a bass clarinet part. I have demonstrated this amazing ability to my section-mates dozens of times. What power I have!
More than once I've gone home after sitting through an entire rehearsal, always ready to play, having personally STOPPED THE MUSIC several times and without having played a single note.
I suppose that is why I get paid the big bucks (HAH)
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