Klarinet Archive - Posting 000630.txt from 1998/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mark Bradley and the Mozart concerto
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 23:07:19 -0400

At 08:50 AM 7/20/98 EDT, Dan Leeson wrote:
>A fourth consideration is that the Bellison edition is for B-flat clarinet.
>And if I were judging anyone's play of the work, I would be very harsh if
>they played it in the wrong key, which is what you must to in the Bellison
>edition. It winds up in concert B-flat instead of concert A.
>
Although we may have been through this before, I cannot for the life of me
see how (except, of course, to those with perfect pitch) this could
possibly make even the slightest bit of difference to 99.999% of the
population. And it has the decided advantage of making the piece
accessible, with normal fingerings, to those of us who do not have access
to an A clarinet, much less a basset clarinet. Frankly, if anyone's ears
are good enough to recognize the differences in resonance on particular
notes (and, for purposes of discussion, I will stipulate that, while
infinitessimally small, they DO exist), I pity them, because they will hear
a tremendous number of annoying things in their lives that will not bother
the rest of us at all.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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