Klarinet Archive - Posting 000002.txt from 1994/03

From: "James E. Perone @-----.BITNET>
Subj: Re: Mozart
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 04:00:04 -0500

Interesting about Eddie Daniels's performance and thoughts about the
Concerto being for viola -- unlikely, however, since all of Mozart's
string concerti (probably for his own use) were written before the time
he stopped performing on violin and viola in public -- a decade and a
half before the Clarinet Concerto.

Something to think about -- many clarinetists treat the Mozart Concerto like
it was some sort of sacred document, in contrast to the Weber works, which
even in Weber's day were altered considerably (Baermann's complete re-
writing of parts of the Concerto No. 1). This is especially ironic in light
of the fact that most of us don't have instruments that will enable us to
play the Mozart the way he wrote it (if we even know for sure what he really
wrote).

James Perone
perone@-----.bitnet

P.S. Anyone living close to Buffalo or Jamestown, New York might want to
catch a broadcast of a concert I played with the Cheektowaga Community
Symphony Orchestra (WNED-FM) last November. Of special interest is the
premiere of Fantasy for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra by Howard Hanson --
a 1978 piece which Hanson revised as part of a ballet score. For more
details on the Hanson, see the article I wrote for the upcoming May-June
issue of The Clarinet.