And now, due to a diminishing number of requests (as the old club MC would say), a last comment from me about the bass clarinet. Like many of you I do have interests in other music besides jazz (Dead Can Dance o10?) and I attended our local symphony Saturday evening. The main performance was Mahler’s "The Song of the Earth". He’s not a favorite of mine but I though I should give it a chance. Anyway I noted the instrumentation included bass clarinet. Sure enough, there were at least three times where that distinctive mellow low tone penetrated through the other instruments, reminding me again I do like that sound. That was the best part of the hour-long piece.
o10, yet another appreciation we share. Growing up I heard multiple times that boys didn’t notice girls until our early teens, about the time facial hair began to show. That was not true for me. I had a crush on a girl in my kindergarten class. Decades later I still remember her name even. We moved and I lost track of her by the 3rd grade but I still remember how cute she was and how that made me feel. ;^)
o10, yet another appreciation we share. Growing up I heard multiple times that boys didn’t notice girls until our early teens, about the time facial hair began to show. That was not true for me. I had a crush on a girl in my kindergarten class. Decades later I still remember her name even. We moved and I lost track of her by the 3rd grade but I still remember how cute she was and how that made me feel. ;^)