Klarinet Archive - Posting 000720.txt from 1995/05

From: Gregory Andrew Seigel <gas11@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: How High The Moon?
Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 14:19:21 -0400

You know, the horn player in our quintet does this on a regular basis,
and I'm about ready to gouge her eyes out with an icepick. Does that
improve her performance? Perhaps. Does it increase _our_ performance?
Definitely not. It will often change the voicing of a chord or the
timbre of a line. Such "transposition" is certainly not acceptable in my
mind.

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Andrew Seigel
Clarinetist, CSU Fresno
gas11@-----.edu

> >I, myself, will often take the artistic licence of dropping extremely high
> >notes or phrases an octave if I feel it improves the performance.
> >
> >John Roman
> >