Klarinet Archive - Posting 000466.txt from 1996/03

From: eric nelson <eric.nelson@-----.US>
Subj: Re: Cahuzac
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 17:41:20 -0500

>My teacher and I were talking about Louis Cahuzac today. Does anyone
>have any
>comments or information about him?
>Julianne Kirk

An interesting aside on Cahuzac - In 1979 I studied at the Royal
Conservatory in Copenhagen, Denmark, with Prof. Tage Scharff, who had been
a student of Aage Oxenvad, the clarinetist for whom Carl Nielsen wrote his
Concerto. While Scharff was a student at the Conservatory [in about 1949],
Cahuzac was engaged to perform the Nielsen Concerto with the Royal
Orchestra. Oxenvad told all of his students to go ahead and attend the
concert, but "don't listen TOO closely to Cahuzac." While the Danes
apparently admired the technical accomplishments of the Frenchman, they
felt that his style and interpretation were much too refined and elegant
for the rough-edged Nielsen concerto. There is, by the way, a CD recording
available of this performance; I don't recall the label, etc; it's at home
and I am at work...but it definitely is a VERY non-Nordic reading - poor
Louis just didn't "get it"...

eric nelson