Klarinet Archive - Posting 000362.txt from 1997/05

From: clarinat@-----.com (Nathaniel Johnson)
Subj: Re: 20thC
Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 11:49:56 -0400

Fred,

First of all, she did not mention 18th- and 19th-century clarinet music;
rather she was discussing Mozart's and Brahms's clarinet music. Since it
was Stadler's and Muehlfeld's playing that these two composers became
enamored of, and for whom they wrote their famous clarinet woks (if
memory serves), I think that this much of an attribution is fair. And
she didn't _really_ make an attribution, anyway. The only attribution
there is the one that we (rightfully, I think) infer.

-N=

On Sun, 11 May 1997 00:38:18 -0400 (EDT) Fred Jacobowitz
<fredj@-----.edu> writes:
>Lori,
> What presumption! How can you attribute the sum total of the
>clarinet world of the entire 18th and 19th centuries to those
>respective
>clarinetists???? And how on earth can you say that the 20th century is
>so
>monolithic as to be tied to one clarinetist? A more intelligent way to
>put
>this question would be: ...________________ is to <Corigoiano>, for
>example, in which case the blank would be Drucker. In the case of
>Shulamit
>Ran, the clarinetist would probably be Laura Flax.
>
>Fred Jacobowitz
>Clarinet/Sax Instructor, Peabody Preparatory
>
>On Fri, 9 May 1997, LORI LOVATO wrote:
>
>> Here's an interesting thought for the list:
>> Anton Stadler was to Mozart, and Richard Muehlfeld was to
>Brahms
>> as ____________________ is to 20th Century clarinet music.
>>
>> Looking forward to hearing from everyone! Lori Lovato
>>
>
>