Klarinet Archive - Posting 000012.txt from 1993/09

From: "Call her Miss Ross." <SMM8404@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: citation index or other material on world renowned
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 22:17:29 -0400

Thank you Dr. Spring for responding to whomever wrote about Stolzman being the
second best clarinetist in the world and Gigliotti being the best or whatever
he/she said. To put it mildly I was enraged by the comment that only younger
players wouldn't know that. To that person, I say:

I may be young, but at least I not a tired, jaded and bitter old clarinet
player who ranks, in my book, on the same level as the pathetic shavings of
wood upon the floor of the Vandoren reed factory. Age has nothing to do with
ability of musical interpretation, thank you very much.

In all my impetuous youngness, might I suggest that you listen to a Musical
Heritage Society recording of the late Harold Wright (any recording will do) or
perhaps a recording of David Shifrin playing the Brahms sonatas. I think that
this would open up your eyes to an entirely different realm of clarinetistry
outside of the stale, mechanical and thin world in which you seem to be living.

Indeed, sir/madam please open your eyes to the WORLD of music out there before
you are absorbed into your own vacuosity.

Love love,
Michael J. Maccaferri
Oberlin Conservatory of Music