Klarinet Archive - Posting 000506.txt from 1996/10

From: Oliver Seely <oliver@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Cavallini duets
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 15:26:33 -0400

Here's what H. Voxman wote of Cavallini's Three Grand Artistic Duets in 1986:

Cavallini was sometimes criticized for his tone quality and intonation, defects
attributed to his use of a six-keyed clarinet (read: he was a show-off who
loved to dazzle people with his technique but he had a tin ear 8-) -- O.S.)
. . . [but] He was especially praised for his large tone and remarkable
facility
(I hope that HE was able to play his own duets -- O.S.)

Anyway, I've been reluctant to convert to computer notation his three duets
because I'd have to slow them all down to about 50% tempo to be able to
play them. Like much of what Cavallini wrote, his duets are brilliant, showy
and somewhat pedagogical numbers, impossible to play by anybody except
the virtuosos among us. (That's Ollie's perverse, contrary opinion of the day.)

Tell you what. If someone promises to create MIDI files of his three duets
and make them available to all of us on a Web page (and sometime sooner
than the beginning of the third millenium) I'll scan and send you the .TIF files
on an "emergency educational basis" (which you can erase after conversion).
Any takers? (The .TIF files will be PC compatible and will just about fill two
1.4 MByte floppy diskettes -- the total number of pages is 43).

Oliver

>Does anyone know anything about a set of duets (now out of print) by Ernesto
>Cavllini? Are they still fairly easily available? How good are they? etc.
>
>Thanks!
>
>
>Greg Baker
>