Klarinet Archive - Posting 000520.txt from 1998/07

From: peter.stoll@-----.ca
Subj: Re: [kl] Larry Combs (LC1) for beginners? (fwd)
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 09:32:36 -0400

"The rest of us regular humans, with day jobs, families, etc., will give
up that note 15 leger lines above the staff in order to enjoy playing the
rest of them."

Funny thing, I just got a contemporary piece asking for an E above the
normal altissimo one (on third ledger line above staff). Makes me think of
the phrase "stupid clarinet tricks"! With that thought, what are other
people's silliest-ever clarinet situations? (once had a stage director
suggest he might do a piece where I'd have to run out on stage playing and
do a backflip! Pity that piece didn't happen...)

Peter Stoll
Instructor, Univ.of Toronto

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