Klarinet Archive - Posting 000118.txt from 1995/06

From: Laurence Liberson <hardreed@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: B-flat vs. A
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 15:40:31 -0400

>I was expecting someone to contribute this one, but perhaps one of you
>knows the story more exactly, and can quote it.
>
>It seems that Stravinsky was present at a performance of his Three
>Pieces in which the performer used the same clarinet for all three.
>(They're unaccompanied, what should it matter?) Apparently Stravinsky
>made a rather nasty remark about it.
>

>Laura Bornhoeft
>

Stravinsky (supposedly) was upset, no so much because of the color
"difference," but due to the fact that the pieces in question were being
played, to his ears, in the wrong key!

Larry Liberson
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
hardreed@-----.com