Klarinet Archive - Posting 000101.txt from 1994/02

From: "Dr. Ronald P. Monsen" <RPMONS00@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: vibrato
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 09:00:49 -0500

I must just add a bit to the vibrato discussion--I use it when I feel it is
needed--I have no idea of spectrums of overtones--I have and continue to read
Arthur Benade--controversial as he is to some of you--I have played the clarnet
s he re-worked and they are without a doubt (For Me) the best ever.

Vibrato is not planned in my performances--I know when and where I am going
to play diminished seventh arps--make crescendo and decrescendo--usually.
But unless it is marked VIBRATO as in the Glinka Trio I do not plan this--
it is there when I feel it should be. This is not scientific but it does

seem to fall in line with what the playing of the clarinet is all about (for me
) and that is making music.

I don't really know how I make vibrato--Jack Brymer doesn't seem to have any
special method--but he does use it--when he feels it is needed. But VIBRATO
is not planned. It reminds of a masterclass with Rampall--a lady from the
audience asked the maestro "How do you teach the VIBRATO?" to which he
answered "I don't teach the VIBRATO--I teach the FLUTE".

Ron Monsen