Klarinet Archive - Posting 000630.txt from 1997/05

From: "David C. Blumberg" <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: Knowledge of Pieces
Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 12:32:40 -0400

I performed at a music festival which the Cellist who played with David
Shifrin did not know the Brahms Trio!!! (he learned it real quickly) This
guy is a world famous solo-cellist who plays on a million $$ cello. I felt
like it was the equivalent of a Clarinetist not knowing the Weber Concertino.
Then I heard the director of a very well known (New England area) Chamber
Music Festival in a Master class with one of my students who didn't seem
to know the Bartok Contrasts- he had nothing to say. This guys daughter is
a world class Violinist , and he is a well known, recorded pianist. Either
the student played so wonderfully perfect, or the clinician didn't know the
piece. I prefer to think the later.
Oh well, it happens.. Kinda makes you wonder about the importance (or
lack of) of the Clarinet.

Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 11:19:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: HardReed@-----.com
Subject: Knowledge, etc...

Everyone learns of a composition for the first time -- even you, Fred.

Just because you and I and the man-in-the-moon know of the Schubert doesn't
mean everybody does...and I bet that someone will discover it for the first
time tomorrow, too!

Larry Liberson
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Hard Reed@-----.com

David C. Blumberg
reedman@-----.com