At 11:55 PM -0500 1/27/10, Ray Horton wrote:
Really, now, how many "legit' sax players do you have around V. Tech, anyway?
Most of them. Our sax professor is straight classical, and when we had a jazz sax teacher on the faculty (whom we lost during the first state budget crisis) they did NOT get along. And I have to say that both our professor and our best sax students play really beautifully.
But you're right; stereotyping is never a good idea, but it's quick in order to get an idea across. Back in the '60s my quartet performed in a special concert with the Cincinnati Symphony, and at the end of one of our arrangements I had a long, Henry Mancini-like falloff in the whole orchestra. In rehearsal the principal cellist looked up and asked me, "Howell, what the hell is a falloff?!!!"
John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:john.how...@vt.edu) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition of jazz musicians. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
