Klarinet Archive - Posting 000428.txt from 1996/01

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: A swing in the other direction
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 11:45:47 -0500

Lots of terrific inquiries recently on reeds, mouthpieces, mechanical
things. All important. They'll come up again and again. But sometimes
those subjects don't interest me and I wait for something to pop up
that does. It's been about a month now and nothing has popped. It
is time to stir the pot.

Of all the things that have NOT been discussed on this list is a key
element of most player's repertoire, the Mozart Sinfonie Concertante
for four solo wind instruments and orchestra, generally, though not
always, including a clarinet.

Either no one is playing it (in which case it is not surprising that
no one speaks of it), or else it is so taken for granted that there
is nothing that need be said about it.

Caution!! In 20 years or so, that work won't even be played very
much and when it does get played, it will probably be in the flute
version rather than the clarinet version.

It is tough for clarinet players to lose any repertoire, but a
concerto by Mozart?????? That's tragedy.

Do you notice how many fewer performances of this work there are
than there used to be? Is that my imagination?

Comments anyone?

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
(leeson@-----.edu)
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