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Hitting for the Cycle

Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2005-06-08 15:04

In baseball "hitting for the cycle" means that the batter has hit a single, a double, a triple and a home run all in the same game. I hit a career cycle yesterday; I hope you will all forgive me for sharing it in this forum.

Having played the Alto Sax part on Moussorgsky/Ravel "Pictures at an Exhibition" yesterday with the "Friday Morning Music Club Orchestra" means that at some point or other in my career I have performed all 4 single-reed parts in this work! Wasn't a paid gig, but I was joined by at least 4 other National Symphony retirees (oboe, violin, viola, double bass) in the orchestra, so it wasn't too shabby a band.

I've played the bass clarinet part dozens of times on at least 4 different continents; always felt a twinge of jealousy when a colleague (first Kenneth Douse, later Bill Wright) got a solo bow for a couple of minutes work while I toiled in relative obscurity on a much more challenging part.

Anyone else had a similar experience?

Larry Bocaner

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