Klarinet Archive - Posting 000283.txt from 1994/10

From: OLIVER SEELY <oliver@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Dan Leeson's rejoinder on the right clarinet fro the job
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 15:37:40 -0400

My feeling is that a composer would have the sound of
a clarinetist he/she knows in mind for a particular part,
rather than a particular tone -- that is a tone, yes,
but as connected to the tone produced by a clarinetist
well known to the composer. I mean, what I'm posting
is ridiculous. A composer wouldn't be thinking about a
tone or a clarinetist he/she had never heard. Clearly
Mozart didn't have any of us in mind when he wrote the
concerto, now, did he? 8-)

Surely part of what I write is reflected in some of their notes on
autographs, isn't it. How about it, Dan?

Oliver