Klarinet Archive - Posting 000626.txt from 1997/07

From: "Charles W. West" <cwest@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Hardest Piece -- HOW DO YOU SMEAR???
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 19:45:50 -0400

Read "A Clarinetist's Slide Guide" in a NACWPI Journal, Fall, 1977.
Chuck West

On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Craig E. Countryman wrote:

> The hardest piece I have yet to encounter to Aaron Copland's Concerto.
> With intervals well over two octaves in the slow sections, three minutes
> of cadenza, and a jazzy fast section it's tough. I love it though and
> would recommend it to everyone.
>
> I do have one question though... there is a smear from throat A to
> altissimo D that ends the concerto (what a way to close!). I am having
> a REAL problem with it, and have reverted to doing a quick chromatic
> scale as fill, until I master this technique. Anyone have any hints. I
> know you need an open throat and lots of air, but the actual lifting of
> the fingers is giving me trouble, PLUS getting from A to D
> legistically.
> ----------------
> Craig Countryman
> cegc@-----.net
> http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/1711
>
> Point to Ponder
>
> "I am not crook." -Richard M. Nixon
>

   
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