Klarinet Archive - Posting 000240.txt from 1996/04

From: Paolo Ravaglia <peval@-----.IT>
Subj: Re: Italian Clarinettists
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 15:35:07 -0400

Carissima Ingrid,
thanks for your interest in my E mail.

Let me say that a meeting with Michele Incenzo may be intersting but
not enthusiastic.
Instead of him (more, more, more interesting)
may be for you a meeting with Nicola Conte, believe me, the ONLY Italian
clarinetist who can clear ALL your doubts about La Scuola Napoletana, and
its peculiarities. He is more than 70 years old, ex 1=B0 clarinet in the
Banda dei
Carabinieri and player in the Orchestra of the Accademia di S. Cecilia.
But, most important, a really clever man, honest and friend.
I give you the address:

M=B0 NICOLA CONTE
via Alberico II, 17
00193 ROMA
Tel. (39) - 6 - 68891941

He'll tell you that in Napoli a lot of people played with reed above during =
all
the 40's and he too, as a student, played in such way.

Yes, please, give me the E mail of Pompili.
Tomorrow Salvatore (Sciarrino) is going to phone me and I'll be very please=
d
to speak to him about one of his pupils.

Of course, when you'll be in Rome I'll present you Nicola.

Try to come in summer. Rome is really nice.
(in other seasons too!!)
What about time in England? (!)

Ciao Paol=
o

>Caro Paolo,
>
>Come stai? I have read your messages on the Klarinetlist with interest. I
>am a post-graduate research student in performance practice at The
>University of Sheffield, England. I am a clarinettist myself and am
>researching clarinet reed-position and its influence on composers and
>repertoire, with a particular focus on the 'reed-above' embouchure. I
>believe that this way of playing, i.e. with the reed underneath the UPPER
>lip survived longest in Italy. Apparently, some players were still using
>this technique early this century.
>
>I have been given some money to undertake research in Italy for three weeks
>from mid-May. Since this reed-position was called 'la scuola Napoletana' I
>have decided to spend some time in Napoli. I am also going to Roma to speak
>to Michael Incenzo, of the Accademia Santa Cecilia, whose teacher Giovanni
>Imbriani played 'reed-above'. Do you know any one who knows about this
>technique? Do you have any suggestions as to who I should talk to in Italy
>and where I should visit? I should be most grateful for your advice.
>
>And now for somethingcompletely different.......................Have you
>heard of the composer Claudio Pompili, born in Italy but now the Head of
>the Music Department of the University of New England, Australia? He
>studied with Sciarrino and Donatoni, and writes great music. He has written
>alot of stuff for the Henri Bok's 'Duo Contemporain'. Let me know if you
>want his email address. I think you'd enjoy his music.
>
>Ciao e grazie,
>
>Ingrid Elizabeth
>
>I. E. Pearson
>Research Student
>Department of Music
>UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
>SHEFFIELD S10 2TN
>U.K.

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