Klarinet Archive - Posting 000036.txt from 1996/10

From: thehat@-----.org
Subj: Re: Things teachers said
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 19:37:54 -0400

In a message dated 09-30-96 INTERNET: RPMONS00@-----.U wrote to ** ALL **:
IR> Jerome Stowell (Chicago SO and NU) "..ninety-five percent of what is
IR> wrong with the clarinet is behind the mouthpiece."

Can't get much truer than that. Stowell was an under-recognized player and
teacher. He can be heard playing e flat clarinet on dozens of CSO recordings
and principal on one. The one happens to be the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
with Reiner and Heifetz.

David Hattner
clarinetist-at-large, NYC
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