"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
05/06/2018 at 15:38 • Filed to: None
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
05/06/2018 at 15:38 • Filed to: None | 3
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We should have started by now but they are holding the curtain because of bad traffic. Thanks, Austin.
3point8isgreat
> ttyymmnn
05/06/2018 at 15:54 |
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I just saw that a month or two ago! Was my first opera, and my girlfriend was playing Anna.
Was a really cool thing to go see. Good luck and have fun playing!
Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious
> ttyymmnn
05/06/2018 at 15:59 |
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How delightful! I am totally jealous. It’s not like there’s anything particularly memorable for clarinet players, but it’s still fun to play.
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ttyymmnn
> Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious
05/06/2018 at 16:19 |
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There is one big clarinet solo, not sure where it is. It’s during a particularly sad part of the show, maybe second act. Our principal clarinet is fabulous.
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ttyymmnn
> 3point8isgreat
05/06/2018 at 16:25 |
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Outstanding! And thanks. Having a good time.
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ttyymmnn
> Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious
05/06/2018 at 17:20 |
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The clarinet solo is in the beginning of big No. 6, Violetta’s scene.
7:07
> ttyymmnn
05/06/2018 at 19:25 |
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I see a score like this and I can’t help but be a bit jealous that you only have one line/one note at a time to worry about, but you DO have breath control and embouchure etc. that I don’t. I just have to not fall off the bench!
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ttyymmnn
> 7:07
05/06/2018 at 21:18 |
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My father is an organist, and I turned pages for him often when I was young. I can’t imagine having to read theee lines of music. I have enough trouble with one. Then again, we have to transpose the majority of opera trumpet parts, so we’re rarely playing the note printed on the page.
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Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious
> ttyymmnn
05/08/2018 at 17:30 |
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OH! I took a glance at the photo and just assumed you were playing an orchestral suite, not the actual opera! I take it back - now I’m even more jealous.
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ttyymmnn
> Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious
05/08/2018 at 17:34 |
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Yup. All. Three. Hours. I love the opening of Act III. Violetta sobbing on stage, as if to say, “Everybody is out having a great time and here I am with tuberculosis.”
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Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious
> ttyymmnn
05/08/2018 at 17:46 |
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I fell in love with opera in my music history classes, but REALLY fell in love with gigging opera after my first one, Tosca. From that gig on, I played every opera that NMSU/Dona Ana Lyric Opera staged from 1998 to 2002. Carmen, Rigoletto, Le Nozze, Don Giovanni, Gianni Schicci, Der Fledermaus, and a few more that escape my memory. From that point on, I’d say (and would still say) that if I could make a living wage as an opera clarinetist, that’d be the dream gig.
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ttyymmnn
> Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious
05/08/2018 at 17:51 |
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Unfortunately, there are very few (maybe just one?) opera company in this country that you could make a living in, and that’s the Met. But those folks work their asses off.