Klarinet Archive - Posting 000498.txt from 1995/05

From: Dunja Mckenney <DUNJA@-----.EDU>
Subj: other wild clarinet playing
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 06:40:43 -0400

This is not klezmer music, but if you want to check out some wild folk
clarinet playing, try Ivo Paposov. It is sometimes called "Bulgarian
wedding music." The things that that he can do on a "western" clarinet
are pretty incredible. If you are familiar with Balkan music at all, the
meters are so often in 17/8,13/8, 11/8, etc, the same as the fold dances
of the different regions. While playing, he goes from sounding like a
clarinet to a Balkan bagpipe to a zurna, the middle eastern folk oboe.
All this and not one single note of written music. You just have to
check it out. I can't remember what label he records on, but his CD's
are listed under his name. If he comes to your town, run, don't walk to
hear him. At least for me, it really changed my perspective on the
instrument and how limited we classically trained musicians can sometimes
be.

Dunja McKenney