Klarinet Archive - Posting 000737.txt from 1998/01

From: ROBERT HOWE <arehow@-----.net>
Subj: Re: klarinet-digest V1 #585
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 22:01:10 -0500

Wouldn't a little, wee bit of vibrato enliven and put interest in the
clarinet tone on such solos as the pas de deux in Stravinsky's "Fairy's
Kiss", the three bars of clarinet that follow the big English horn solo
in the largo of Dvorak's New World, the opening of the Sibelius 1, or
the "Pines of Rome" Nightingale? These solos often sound so flat, not
in pitch, but in spirit, when played straight. Everyone should be able
to do vibrato as musically apt!

RObert Howe

>It seems to me that far too many CLASSICAL players are unable to call on
vibrato when necessary and actually have to ask "what kind of vibrato do
I
use" simply because they have never been encouraged to employ it and
have
never heard it done often enough to make some artistic judements on it
on
their own. And I won't even get into the fact that most of them can't
even
improvise! Who's missing the technical skills here?