Klarinet Archive - Posting 000052.txt from 1997/12

From: Ken Bryson <kbryson@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Melos Ensemble Concert on 12/6
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 08:22:44 -0500

Robin Fairbairns wrote:
>
> > At 06:13 PM 12/1/97 -0500, you wrote:
> > >Gervase de Peyer and the Melos Ensemble are hosting a concert at the The
> > >Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia, on Saturday,
> > >December 6, 1997, at 7:30 pm.
> > >
> > >The program: Mozart: Quintet in Eb for Winds and Piano, K. 452
> > > Divertimento No. 2 Arranged for Two Clarinets and Bassson, K. 229
> > >
> > Whoa! Send out the anti-transcription police!
>
> Oh come on ... elementary players need these things. (I first played
> the divertimenti in that configuration, back in the 60s ;-)
>
> You send out transcription police and I'll send out authentic
> instruments police. I heard one of those divertimenti (no. 4, IIRC)
> last Friday on repros of an approx 1800 basset horn. It was an
> absolutely ravishing sound: accept no substitute, I say ;-)
>
> Robin

Surely you're not suggesting Maestro de Peyer is an elementary player?