Klarinet Archive - Posting 000765.txt from 1998/06

From: ROBERT HOWE <arehow@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re:Bass clarinet vibrato/Pini di Roma
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 23:33:33 -0400

Is this a joke? Haven't you ever heard a bird sing? The clarinet solo,
the nightingale, in I Pini di Roma, very much needs vibrato. Sounds dead
otherwise. Poor little nightingale, no life at all, maybe the nasty
clarinet cat from Peter & The Wolf got you.

Vibrato is a valuable technique which allows you to enrich your clarinet
sound. Try it, you'll like it.

For the English horn solo in I Pini di Roma, vibrato is without question
needed. Otherwise it sounds dead. Like so many clarinettists do on the
nightingale, I would add if I wanted to be snide.

Bon Regardez,
Robert Howe
English horn & oboe player/doubler on clarinet and Saxophone

Stuart wrote:
>Subject: Re: Vibrato on bass

>>Regarding the teacher, his comment was doctrinaire, but too strong. >Has
>>he ever heard the clarinet solo in Pines of Rome played REALLY well,
>>some vibrato is SO wonderful here.

>That's not a clarinet; it's an english horn.

>Stuart
>CoolStu67@-----.COm
>ContraSM@-----.net

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