joshd19

[deleted]

A famous French countertenor (still intact though) recently released an album of some of Farinelli's most famous arias.

He was criticized for not sounding enough like his balls had been cut off.

Edit: yes, Philippe Jaroussky is the one. article here

Hey, Jake, thanks for doing this!

I have been listening to your music ever since I picked up the 'uke about 5 years ago. Do you ever plan to release any songbooks or transcriptions of any of your charts? For me, it would be less about directly learning your style and more about picking up the crazy inversions and voicings you use.

I'm a junior at a high school with a large and fairly well known music program (in Chicago suburbs, if that rings any bells. Our director of 20-odd years is retiring.) In any case, I play the clarinet pretty well and regularly do solo festivals and stuff. I'm 2nd chair in the school; 1st is a virtuoso and definitely going to Oberlin or Eastman or something ridiculous. I also play the ukulele (edit: actually play and practice, not 4-chord Pachelbel bullshit) and to a lesser extent, guitar and piano. I create a lot of electronic music in my spare time and I like that a lot.

I have no desire to do anything professional with clarinet, and frankly I've all but totally removed Music Ed. as a career option. I would want to work exclusively with high school+ which obviously isn't a guarantee, and I'm not sure if it's worth the money I'll pay for the degree.

Can you convince me otherwise?