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Author: Julie
Date: 2002-05-12 19:32
apparently, the youth orchestra directors here think that a clarinet choir is a horrible idea. They have a flute choir, 2 actually, but no clarinet choir. Is there something WRONG with clarinet choirs????
sorry... it just makes me mad..
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Author: Lindsey Ondrey
Date: 2002-05-12 23:05
I love clarinet choirs... some of my best fun since college has been with one! (which unfortunatly was refused funding by the college so it was discontinued).
There's a lot of great music... and if there's a large group and a sampling of the different kinds of clarinets... very fun.
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Author: David Pegel
Date: 2002-05-13 00:11
I took up contra because the band director found out I could play a "little" clarinet and had me sitting with that giant a few minutes later. Of course clarinet choirs are a good thing!!
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Author: chuck
Date: 2002-05-13 00:15
Julie: Have no idea where you may be located, but if you are the Southern California area, let me invite you to a meeting of San Diego Clarinet Society. We meet monthly (see announcements page) and play a wide range of clarinet choir music . . Mozart to Basie. Next meeting is next Sunday, the 19th. Chuck
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Author: Julie
Date: 2002-05-13 00:16
*sigh* too bad i live on the other side of the country that sounds like fun!
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Author: Melanie
Date: 2002-05-13 03:12
I do live in Southern California, and I might check it out. But, our clarinet teacher thinks that clarinet choir is a waste of time (time would be better spent in other chamber ensembles). We are still starting one next fall. Are there any suggestions for small clarinet choir? We will probably have 5 people. We won't have a whole lot of money to try different things, and none of us have ever really been involved in clarinet choir. Thanks!!!
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-05-13 06:37
Julie - clarinet choirs are just fine. Look at the sponsors to Upper Canada - they have a fine group who've played some terrific music - including some by an Australian who will remain nameless due to the embargo on self-publicity!
:-)
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Author: Jim S.
Date: 2002-05-13 17:06
The late Russell Howland of Fresno State U. arranged marvelous music for clarinet choir (e.g., Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin) most, or all, of which remains unpublished. Subscribers to this list with some academic influence should contact Dr. Ishigaki and try to pursuade him to make the manuscripts available for publishing or at least for copying for scholarly purposes. It is a terrible waste for these manuscripts to be held incognito.
Dr. Miles M. Ishigaki
Professor of Clarinet, California State University, Fresno
2380 E. Keats Ave. M/S M/B 77
Department of Music
Fresno, California 93710-8024
Phone: 559-278-2902; Fax: 559-435-9120; or e-mail: milesi@csufresno.edu
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Author: Julie
Date: 2002-05-13 21:53
hmm... if only the youth orchestra people thought the same thing... maybe we can start our own clarinet choir...
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-05-14 03:30
diz is far too modest...He has written some fine works for clarinet choir...GBK
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2002-05-14 13:35
Diz - are your compositions available, such as from the Sheet Music site right here in "River City"? Sounds good to me. Julie, my C C experience was with about 20 V G players in and around Tulsa, OK, our Community Band conductor, Dwight Dailey [sure wish I could play cls that well!!] directing, and I learned how to play alto cl [bought a slightly used Selmer-Paris for it] which I believe greatly improved my bass cl [and Bb] abilities. We played a variety of arrangements from some of the great classics to some jazz and a beautifully-harmonized "Londonderry Air-Danny Boy". So, do what you can to promote a Choir, its well worth it. Luck, Don
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Author: Julie
Date: 2002-05-15 02:38
coincidently, I went to the Youth Orchestra concert tonight (very excellent) and there was an email address on the back of the program. I just emailed and suggested a clarinet choir. We'll see what they say.
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-05-15 04:21
No - unfortunately my four pieces for clarinet choir were a commission and are only for use by a particular group. Ask me again in 100 years when the copyright's run out ...
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Author: Janet
Date: 2002-05-15 22:20
GBK -
I'll second that. Diz has written some wonderful works for clarinet choir - that were fun to learn, fun to play, and received very positive response from the audience!
Janet
Upper Canada Clarinet Choir
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Author: David Dow
Date: 2002-05-19 22:00
Clarinet choirs in Canda are permitted and usually indoors...the Opperman choir has some good recordings too...I think they are on RCA records.
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Author: Patrick Scully
Date: 2002-07-19 19:14
Julie, and all --
I play the contrabass and contra alto clarinets and have been looking to join (or form) a clarinet choir in the LA 213, 323, 310, 714, or 562 area codes (prefer South Bay). (I know a couple of other clarinet people who might want to join one as well). If you have space in yours, let me know. I'm an amateur, it's still fun for me, but I'll do gigs if there's a call.
BTW, people who trash clarinet choirs are fundamentally trashing the clarinet, and have clearly closed their minds to a wonderful performing and listening experience. Check out www.eclecticclarinets.com, and the many recordings on CD and DVD of the great clarinet choirs in Europe and Japan (in Tokyo, there is a giant 100 piece clarinet choir, including 5 contrabass clarinets in its instrumentation). In like vein, the Nuclear Whales are a saxophone orchestra sporting all the instruments in the family, from sopranino to contrabass. Lots of CDs from them available.
Patrick
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