Klarinet Archive - Posting 000068.txt from 1996/12

From: Franck Laloe <Franck.Laloe@-----.fr>
Subj: Re: Damiens and sponsors
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 08:56:08 -0500

At 23:55 23/11/96 -0800, you wrote:
>At the local record store today I was looking at two CDs by the French
>clarinetist Alain Damiens (I have some of his recordings and am always
>curious about the latest French efforts). One was on the ADDA label and
>one on the Accord label. They had totally identical recording information
>(dates, engineer, timings, place of recording) and personnel, and yet one
>clearly stated that Damiens played Leblanc clarinets and the other was
>sponsored by Buffet (like all of Damiens' other recordings)!

It is true that Alain used to work for Leblanc and now no longer does. I am
almost sure that he now plays a Buffet. It is also true that he has an
extraodinary flexibility in the sound he produces independently of the
mouthpiece, reed, etc. which he considers as details The clarinettist in
charge at Leblanc is now Richard Vieille (he played a concerto at the
Clarfest in Paris last summer).
Best wishes Franck
Franck Laloe, labo de physique de l'ENS, 24 rue Lhomond, F75005 Paris (France)
tel 33 (1) 47 07 54 13, fax 45 35 00 76 -- laloe at physique.ens.fr