Klarinet Archive - Posting 000517.txt from 1995/11

From: Michael D Moors - Alpena <mdmoors@-----.US>
Subj: Re: Neil Leupold and Mahler's 4th
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 22:44:52 -0500

Dan,

Thanks for the scoop on Mahler's sex life and constipation! No wonder a
Mahler sweat shirt costs $30.00 from the Mahler Society. It is to pay
off the debt for the clean up of November 1912. :-)

Mike Moors

On Wed, 29 Nov 1995, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> Neil says that the Mahler 4 has a movement in which the 3rd clarinet player
> is directed to pickup the b.c. but doesn't play a thing after making the
> switch.
>
> I played Mahler 4 last about 2 years ago and as I remember I got the
> feeling that Mahler had become especially anal retentive at that point;
> normally when changing to another instrument he asked the player to do
> something but in this case I think he wanted the bass clarinet cuddled
> because it has so little to do in the 4th. In fact, the part is
> advertised as 3rd clarinet, not as the b.c. part.
>
> I think Mahler thought that the b.c. was getting lonely, sad, dejected,
> and unloved. It was a pyschological parallel with Mahler's sex life,
> which I understand was also non-existent at this and all other times.
>
> He may have been the most anal retentive person in all Austria at the
> time of composition of that work. One psychiatrist suggested that
> he was constipated from Jan. 4, 1897 until Oct. 11, 1912. It may
> be a record of some sort.
>
> Angst!!
>
>
> ====================================
> Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
> (leeson@-----.edu)
> ====================================
>

   
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