Klarinet Archive - Posting 000094.txt from 1995/05

From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@-----.UK>
Subj: Re: has the clarinet changed?
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 04:58:01 -0400

Rod McDonald writes:

> [...] From the general tone of this forum I thought that
> there must have been something wrong with me in delighting in
> Stolzmann. I too always found classical clarinet Dull. Then
> Stolzmann electrified me too! Mainly because it had some subtle
> vibrato and passion in it, I think, which in my very sparse
> listening I had not come across before in classical clarinet.

The general tone can be misleading. There are wise heads on this list
(notably Dan Leeson, but he's not alone) who believe that it's _your_
choice what you like and what you don't like.

If every player in the world played in exactly the same way, it would
be a boring old place. Let's celebrate the range of what's available
to us, rather than stomping on the remarks of those who like things we
don't.

(FWIW, I don't particularly care for Stolzmann, but so what?)

R