Klarinet Archive - Posting 000070.txt from 1998/05

From: Jack Kissinger <kissingerjn@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re:Poulenc on Picc
Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 12:47:14 -0400

So you didn't have your D clarinet at that time? I should think you missed
a great career opportunity here -- opening for a national tour of the
Chipmunks! ;^)

Best regards,
Jack "Silver" (but I think bald will probably win out over grey) Kissinger

ROBERT HOWE wrote:

> Jack Silver Wrote: >(Hmm, wonder what the Poulenc 2 Clarinet Sonata
> would
> sound like on D and Eb (or, for that matter 2 Eb's).>
>
> I played the Poulenc Sonata for clarinets in Bb and A on 2 Eb PICCOLO
> clarinets (with me transposing the A part as if written for D clarinet)
> a few years ago with Gwen Winkle, a really marvelous Eb PICCOLO clarinet
> player from Connecticut. It was dreadful. Sounded like cats mating on
> the fence. Poulenc cursed us from his grave. I will never do such a
> thing again. But Gwenny, at least, made the first part sound musical,
> if rather high....
>
> Even worse is the same piece on Eb PICCOLO clarinet and Eb SOPRANINO
> Saxophone, but I don't dare tell a bunch of Klarinettists about that
> debacle...
>
> Cheers,
> Robert Howe
>
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