Klarinet Archive - Posting 000523.txt from 1997/12

From: Jacqueline Eastwood <eastwooj@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Slander, etc.
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:41:57 -0500

On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> Every large opera house in Europe
> including Munich, Frankfurt, Salzburg, Vienna, Berlin, Stockholm,
> Helsinki, London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen all have basset clarinets
> in both B-flat and A available when the works arise that require
> them, including both Titus and Cosi Fan Tutte.
>
> =======================================
> Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
> Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
> leeson@-----.edu
> =======================================
>
Since I am going to be performing Cosi in February, and since I was *SO*
excited that I had all of the required clarinets (A, Bb and C), and since
I was *SO* excited about being excited that I impulsively went out and
bought a Blayman stand with 4 peg attachments for about $150 which I don't
have, and now Dan tells me that I need a basset clarinet or even multiple
basset clarinets, I think I am going to go home and bash myself in the
skull with my new 500 pound Blayman stand (yeah, boy, it's REAL heavy!).

(Maybe Dan would like to tell me where the basset clarinet parts are, or
how I can find out for myself, i.e., library research).

Jacqueline Eastwood
University of Arizona/Arizona Opera Orchestra
eastwooj@-----.edu