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Getting to Know Improbable Beasts

Getting to Know Improbable Beasts

How can one not gravitate to the name of a band called Improbable Beasts?  Improbable Beasts is a Boston-based professional bass clarinet ensemble –15 members strong — dedicated to bringing the deeply expressive power of multiple bass clarinets before a broad audience. Their repertoire ranges from Renaissance choral music to brand-new compositions to klezmer tunes and holiday songs. Their mission…

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[migueldelaguila]

This Saturday July 10, 8:45pm PT tune in to #ClarinetFest2021 #YouTube channel for a wonderful #dance #performance of #MigueldelAguila's #PacificSerenade and #Milonga Performs: Javier#Vinasco #clarinet #CarlosBentancour #piano #LuisaCarmona & #DomingoAcevedo #dancers - Streaming: https://youtu.be/KcapDd57WxU

[migueldelaguila]

Here new clip of the new #ClarinetQuartet #TRANSOCEANICA recently premiered by #VientosDulces at International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest 2019 | Nuevo video del cuarteto de clarinetes TRANSOCEANICA estrenado recientemente en ClarinetFest https://youtu.be/W6dbe7aDj_w

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My #clarinet septet after a #chambermusic performance on Sunday - Eb, 3 Bb, Alto, Bass, and Contra-alto clarinets. We played Roger C. Vogel’s Cityscapes, a tone poem for the city of Chattanooga which you can get from Brixton Publications. It’s relatively recent, from 2014 - I picked it up somewhat randomly at #ClarinetFest when it was in Baton Rouge and I was first getting in to chamber music, I want to say 2015? Anyway, it’s a fun piece, fairly short and episodic with evocative sounds and rhythms. The second part, Riverbank, is actually fairly difficult due its complex rhythms and lack of a clear pulse, but otherwise it’s not a hard piece and the instrument mix is pretty cool. All the different clarinets are in the same family, but a bass clarinet is no more a Bb with a lower range than a violin is a just small cello; clarinets are acoustically deeply weird and each instrument has its own voice in the group. This piece does a nice job of mixing and matching the different timbres. There are a couple recordings on YouTube, but recording clarinets is hard so it’s better in person 😄. Anyway, I thought our performance came together nicely. As with most live amateur music there were some bumps along the way, but the overall results were good, and it’s always fun to play unusual pieces that nobody knows and have it turn out that people like it 😊 (at South Bay Chinese Seventh-Day Adventist Church) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwDhsFaDeJe/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mw1g50qgrdkt

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Bandırma'mızın gururu üstad Kirpi(Bülent Altınbaş) hocam.. 👏 #Bandırma #10.5 #uluslararasıklarnetfestivali2016🤗#klarnetfest #klarnetfestivali #istanbulnefesalıyor #clarinetfest (Life Park Bahçekõy)

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Ramazan Sesler.. 👏#uluslararasıklarnetfestivali2016 #klarnetfest #klarnetfestivali #istanbulnefesalıyor #clarinetfest @ (Life Park Bahçekõy)

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ClarinetFest, day four

Oh yeah. I was gonna write about this. Well. I don't want to leave, but I SO need CF to be over. Geez. I'm having a good time, but I am EXHAUSTED. Half-day tomorrow left, though, and I'm gonna make the best of it. Today was a day full of lectures. First, a lecture on reedmaking, which I REALLY want to try. He explained the basic process, and it think it's something I could do. He worked out the math, and it does save money long-term, but the initial outlay is just prohibitive right now. *sigh* Then was supposed to be a lecture/workshop on Greek clarinet, but that got replaced with "Winning a College Teaching Job." That's not necessarily part of my plans, but the guy was cool, and there was useful stuff in there, so no big deal. Next, a lecture and workshop on breathing and the Alexander technique. Revelation of the day: I am a LOT more tense when I'm standing up. Probably explains my problems with playing while standing. Then lunch and the exhibits again. I tried an actual working metal clarinet, and bought a good silk swab. I wanted to play my Selmer babies again, but it would've made me too sad to put them back down. Then more lectures! One on entrepreneurship that was really deep and still has me thinking. Then one about how two clarinet studios, separated by miles, came together via videos and a Facebook group. It was really cool and interesting. Next was tips on reaching people online with "your clarinet-related business" but really any business. I knew a lot of the stuff, but some was new, and the lady was nice. She's holding a webinar later, and I'm going to see if I can be there. Also she got themed lip balm "because it looked fun." LOL! ... I got one. Last was one about the "21st century doubler." I really liked that one. He has a doctorate in multiple woodwinds, I think. Not, like, multiple doctorates, but one. He talked about the differences in expectations for doublers in this generation compared to the last, and it was striking. I am fairly good at both saxophone and clarinet, and don't consider myself to have a "primary" besides having to choose one for school. That makes me pretty different from a lot of my fellow students by itself. But a lot of gigs demand being good at five or more instruments. He talked about the spreading thin of resources, which is the main problem. Although he did call mixing up fingerings a "fake problem," and while it isn't MAJOR, it definitely happens. One really useful tip he had was how to schedule practicing for having more instruments than time. He wants to play all of his five at the same level, and said that's what he prioritizes for, but it would change based on the person. Anyway, if you had, say, five instruments, and could carve three hours out per day for practice, it goes like this: Day 1- a, b, c; day 2- b, c, d; day 3- c, d, e; and so on. If you do less than about an hour on any, it doesn't give enough time to get any useful practice in. If you have a day on and then several off, you lose your momentum. I like that, and when I get one of my flutes fixed I'll add it in like that. Anyway, yeah, like I said, good day, but I am exhausted and overwhelmed and kinda glad it's almost over. And I'm still sad I'm not planning on going next year. Because, you know, SPAIN. And internship. Although I'm considering entering the composition competition. I mean, it's not like I'll win. LOL. And I'd still have to get myself to Spain, but, you know. If I won, I'd find a way. And any decent employer would give me time off in that circumstance, I figure ;-)