Klarinet Archive - Posting 000031.txt from 1996/10

From: Jacqueline Eastwood <eastwooj@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Bartok
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 14:02:36 -0400

Hi Mark,

It's a scary, scary piece which you bring up. And difficult to get good
copies of the excerpts because it's a rental piece (my copy looks like
chicken scratch - maybe that's why I've never worked on it!)

George Silfies has been principal in St. Louis for some length of time,
so I would guess he's on that recording.

Unfortunately, that's all I know. I only have so much room left in my
aging brain. Sorry -- decade birthday coming up here. I'll go now.

Jacqueline

On
Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Mark Charette wrote:

> I'm literally in the middle of a heavy coding session, so I'm listening to
> "keep me alert" music. I was just listinging to Bartok's "The Miraculous
> Mandarin" (on good headphones, no need to annoy the masses ;^) and heard a
> gorgeous clarinet solo toward the beginning of the piece (2nd track), and
> started listening to the clarinet throughout this piece. There is a lot
> of brilliant work (IMNSHO) by the clarinet section in this work.
>
> The recording I have is by the St. Louis Symphony, conducted by Richard
> Slatkin, 1994. Any idea who the clarinetists are/were during this period?
> ---
> Thanks,
> Mark Charette
> charette@-----.com
>