Klarinet Archive - Posting 001008.txt from 1998/09

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Leaps and slurs
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 10:40:34 -0400

He is Neil!......and I relate one story (from my youth).......and Tony has
no idea.....

I performed the Polacca movement of the Weber 2nd Concerto with the Wind
Ensemble while it was on tour. After 10 performances and nearly flawless
technique by the end, I was feeling fairly confident and full of
myself......(alas)......since I didn't have a recording, I went looking
for one. I found Antony Pay's with all the Weber works (well, not all of
them, but most of them) for orchestra and purchased it. I had already
heard his Mozart (extended clarinet) and knew it would be a "safe"
purchase.

When I got it home and listened to the Polacca, I put on the headphones
and scrutinized every detail of the last page - you know, the "hard" part!
I couldn't believe what I was hearing! I heard a slight unevenness (to
this day I still have trouble finding it without headphones) in one
passage and perhaps a slightly labored chromatic passage somewhere else.
Feeling very rightous, I opened the CD cover and my whole outlook on
myself changed.....there was a picture of Tony on the back cover of the
booklet. He was playing a 7 key clarinet.

Geez.

Tennis anyone????

Roger Garrett
IWU

On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Neil Leupold wrote:

> Tony Pay submitted a post on leaps and slurs.
> You're not Anthony Pay, the oft-recorded well-
> known period instrument British clarinetist,
> are you?
>
> Neil
>
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