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Re: Who is your audience?

Author: kilo
Date: 2021-08-21 17:16

Concert bands in Maine usually have a short season of outdoor playing. We missed the whole season last year, of course, and we only did two this year, plus an indoor performance comprised of smaller groups, a brass quintet, a flute duo, and a clarinet trio. While we may be able to do our usual indoor holiday concert, depending on the course of the pandemic, last night was our final outdoor performance of the year.

As with many small New England towns there is a town green with a monument commemorating the Civil War and a flagpole. A gently sloping hill forms a natural amphitheater of sorts; the band sets up at the base and the audience brings blankets and chairs and sits on the hillside. There's a very Norman Rockwell vibe to the whole thing. Most of the audience is in the "older demographic" but there's a scattering of younger people with their kids. Which is nice to see – with any luck a few of them might even decide they'd like to learn how to play a musical instrument. (I sure hope so because our band membership is decidedly in the "older demographic"!) We got a great response from the audience. A few people approached me afterward because they were so intrigued with the bass clarinet. One woman who was sitting nearby actually complimented me on my playing — "You and the tuba really kept everyone in line."

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