Klarinet Archive - Posting 000943.txt from 1995/10

From: Gene Keyes <gene@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: John Denman in the Fiddler movie???
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 14:20:58 -0400

>Steve Prescott indicates that he is of the opinion that John Denman
>played the clariinet in the Fiddler movie. I know John and he has
>never mentioned this to me. I suppose it could be possible, but
>knowing that John has little experience in this style of music, I
>would doubt that the statement could be true.
>
>The fact that one is a fine clarinet player (as John is) does not mean
>that one can walk into a role as culturally unique as that and
>accomplish it as effectively as whoever made the movie did do. I
>hear a lot of very good clarinet players who simply cannot deal with
>the Fiddler book, just as I could not play a Greek wedding without some
>months of preparation.
>
>
>====================================
>Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
>(leeson@-----.edu)
>====================================
>Hi Danny...............if you listen closely to the movie score, you'll
find that many of the clarinet solos from the original score were played on
the violin by Issac Stern. Well.........if your going to be replaced...you
can't complain too much about being replaced by Stern. I was under the
impression that the sound track was done in London using one of the English
orchestras. I would imagine that the clarinet player was the regular player
from that orchestra/gk
>
Gene Keyes
gene@-----.net