Klarinet Archive - Posting 001265.txt from 1997/08

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Basset clarinet
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 11:49:37 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.41
> Subj: Re: Basset clarinet

> >Gary VanCott=NHIN
> >08/28/97 10:15 PM
> >Apropos of our early discussions, I have been exchanging some email (about
> >printing from Finale onto large format paper) with an orchestra conductor
> >in Southern California. After I mentioned that I was a clarinet player, he
> >volunteered that he had never done K 622 because he wanted to do it with a
> >basset clarinet. This of course made me curious if there is anyone on the
> >list that does this on the basset clarinet?
> >
> >Gary Van Cott
> >Las Vegas, NV
>
> I regularly perform this on basset clarinet (I own a Leblanc), and in fact
> I did the Boston premiere of my own properly "bassetized" version of the
> Concerto several years ago. I used the much-discussed fragment in G and
> the existing score/orchestration as guidelines in trying to figure out what
> Mozart intended. I also do improvised Eingangs at the appropriate places
> (dominant seventh holds, that is). No cadenzas, Dan, don't worry!
>
> -----------------
> Jonathan Cohler
> cohler@-----.net
>

God bless you, Jonathan. Only the devil would make one put a cadenza
in that piece!!

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