Klarinet Archive - Posting 000454.txt from 1997/03

From: Jacqueline Eastwood <eastwooj@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Question for all
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 11:20:25 -0500

On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Neil Leupold wrote:

> After that initial experience, I became more interested in
> discovering what was possible on the clarinet. Stoltzman's
> insane flights of fancy and creativity in his now-famous
> rendition of the Rossini "Intro, Theme, and Variations" was
> the next mind-blower. I can still remember sitting in rapture
> on my bedroom carpet, maybe 13 years old, screaming, "That's
> imPOSSIBLE!!", listening to it for the first time on the radio,
> while he climbed one half-step at a time up to high C at the very
> end. I still consider it the most remarkable recording of the
> piece in existence.

Neil and I must be of an age, because this is the recording I had
mentioned earlier on the list as having such a great cadenza! I even took
the liberty of transcribing it from the tape and using it for myself.
Hope it's not copyrrighted or something!

Jacqueline Eastwood
University of Arizona/Arizona Opera Orchestra
eastwooj@-----.edu