Klarinet Archive - Posting 000367.txt from 1997/06

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: Jacqueline Eastwood, when did I ever flame you??
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 22:35:33 -0400

You mention improvising in the Gran Partitta slow movement, which, if
I am correct, you just did in Tucson about 2 or 3 months ago. John
Denman called me up to play it or lend my basset horns or something,
so I know you did it (though I don't necessarily mean "you"
personally -- did you play the performance?).

I always improvised that movement, but only if my colleagues on
first clarinet and first oboe would do so too. Otherwise, it
stuck out like a sore thumb. When I did it with the Toronto
Symphony, Harry Sargous was playing 1st oboe (now he is at the
Univ. of Michigan) and Jim Campbell was playing 1st clarinet (now
at Indiana University). It was quite an event!! Chris Weait,
now professor of bassoon at Ohio State, improvised on the bassoon
line in other movements. We recorded the work with lots of
improvisation.

Why should I flame you? I don't flame people. I'm just
a simple country boy.

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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