Klarinet Archive - Posting 001099.txt from 1998/10

From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Weber Concerto number 2--Sabine Meyer & Charlie Neidich
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:59:46 -0500

I don't get it . . . Weber too fast? Destroys the music? Puh-lease. There
are great, deep works in the literature. This is not one of them. Lighten
up!

Weber's clarinet stuff was written as cheap pot-boiler opera, a showpiece
for the virtuoso, created for the sole purpose of dazzling the audience.
It's not--and was never intended to be--"great serious music." That Charlie
tongues the last page would have met with both Weber's and Baermann's
approval (and probably a standing ovation).

kjf

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