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Originally posted by SteveDallas
I play clarinet, including a stint as a music major at a university with a pretty good music school. Ultimately I switched from the performance track to music history, and then dropped out of grad school to get into the IT racket, but I've continued to play.
The thing I've been most interested in is playing in orchestras. There's just something about the experience... like UT says, it's hard to say. On the best nights, it can be a religious experience. It's nice to have solos--I had a really nasty one at the last concert, in April, and judging from the comments, I must have played the hell out of it, but I personally don't really remember it. But I also have a really great appreciation for just playing along as part of the group, creating something that turly is greater than the sum of the parts.
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Ah another clarinet player. Granted I haven't played since high school, but I understand what you were saying in that last paragraph.
Whenever we played a concert (either for the school or on location), it *was* a religious experience. We were the best concert band (and jazz band) in Baltimore County at the time, and we knew it (marching band left a lot to be desired lol). Even if we sounded like crap during pratice, we managed to come together and kick ass during the concerts.
Ah the memories...
