Klarinet Archive - Posting 000790.txt from 1997/12

From: Daniel.Meirsman@-----.com
Subj: Re[2]: Four quickies
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 12:14:43 -0500

Beethoven sometimes dared to modulate.

Daniel

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Subject: Re: Four quickies
Author: majordom@-----.us at #SMTP
Date: 16/12/97 14:40

Emma probably WAS about 20 when they took the photo - she's rather more=

than that now.
Beethoven's 7th is actually in A.
Roger Shilcock

On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Edinger/Gilman wrote:

> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 19:37:41 -0700
> From: Edinger/Gilman <wde1@-----.com>
> To: Klarinet list <klarinet@-----.us>
> Subject: Four quickies
>
> 1) Thanks to all who so generously responded to my request for advice=
on
> metronomes.
>
> 2) I recently got a CD of Emma Johnson doing the Weber Concertos,
> Concertino, and Grand Duo Concertant, and have been enjoying it very
> much. Does anyone know anything about her? She looks like she's abo=
ut
> 20 in the picture they provide. Lot's of spunk and energy in her
> playing, although the recording conditions are obviously different in=

> the different pieces.
>
> 3) Utterly non-clarinet, but there are a lot of knowledgeable musicia=
ns
> out there to take advantage of: Beethoven's 7th symphony is, I belie=
ve,
> in G major, considered a great key for strings because there are so m=
any
> open notes (or whatever they call it), where the left hand doesn't to=
uch
> the strings. My question is: if that's the case, then how do they m=
ake
> a vibrato? There must be a lot of held notes with no vibrato that wa=
y,
> no?
>
> 4) Finally, I can't resist saying how much I enjoyed hearing Larry
> Combs do the Brahms Sonata No. 1 with the CSO the other night. Berio=

> made an orchestral transcription which was just gorgeous and rich (an=
d
> his thing on Schubert's symphonic fragments was just as wonderful). =
I'm
> glad scruples didn't keep me from taping it.
>
> Bill E.
>
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