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Re: Music Education

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2019-09-06 03:59

My guess is Ed Palanker will pop in so I won't say much other than for you to enjoy both, the clarinet and the bass clarinet. The bass clarinet often has some really wonderful solos that stand out. Sometimes if you are not the solo clarinetist you can spend years hoping to play a solo. I don't think this is right. I love solo work. I live for this. Life is too short. If you want to be a section player that's fine. If you want the solo life go for it and don't let anyone stop you. Some players don't like the pressure of solo performances. That's just fine! Music is still a wonderful world. There are so many gifted players who could have great careers in major symphonies but chose to teach and were/are extremely gifted at it.

At one point in my career I worked at a reed company. I was able to play all of the saxes and all of the clarinets. But I didn't play the alto clarinet nor the bari sax, someone else did. It was a lot of fun playing and designing all of these reeds and I liked some of the difficult Eb clarinet solos and the sound of a good sop sax reed on the Selmer Mark 6. A sweet horn. The Eb clarinet was also a Selmer.

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