Klarinet Archive - Posting 000596.txt from 1996/03

From: "S. OLix-Anderson" <jabices@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: the proper instrument
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 15:41:14 -0500

At 09:01 AM 3/23/96 -0600, Daniel A. Paprocki wrote:
>Tania,
> This is a real dilema with me. I don't mind when one of us
>clarinetists "steals" rep from another instrument (Stolzman doing the
>Mozart bassoon Concerto, Eddie doing the Vivaldi 4 Seasons). Actually I
>like that. It does bother me when other instruments take ours (sop sax
>doing the Debussy!!!, what next the Mozart on bagpipes?!). I guess I
>should just look the other way when this happens. I still don't like the
>Brahms Sonatas on Viola - I keep thinking how better they sound on
>clarinet. Let me have it but please not the Nielsen on bass saxophone.
>
>Dan
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> Daniel A. Paprocki
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Dan - your being hypocritical when you say its o.k. for clarinetists to
borrow rep and insult saxophonists when they do it. Double standard if you
ask me.

Susan