Klarinet Archive - Posting 001201.txt from 1998/07

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mozart and the right clarinet
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 22:42:48 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.99
> Subj: RE: [kl] Mozart and the right clarinet

> On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:
> > For example, I find C clarinet music much more shrill than A
> > clarinet music.
>
> Must have been a plastic clarinet instead of a wood one...*wink*.
>
> Seriously though, you know, I have heard some people play C clarinet and
> make them sound just like their A clarinets (a good thing I think).....but
> did you mean the music in general or just the clarinet sound? I couldn't
> tell from your posting Dan.

I was speaking of the clarinet sound being played in a range that I
found more shrill than the analogous range of a B-flat or A clarinet.
Bob Levin told me that he was playing the Beethoven 1st piano concerto
with a smaller midwest orchestra and in the second movement he came
right out of his chair because the clarinet solo has such a unique
characteristic to it. And he looked up at the pianist who, when
he realized that Levin was on to what he was doing -- which was playing
on a C as the part requests -- that he took special pride in the
performance and that anyone had noticed.

>
> Roger Garrett
> IWU
>
>
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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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