Klarinet Archive - Posting 000073.txt from 1998/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] re:Fingering Help for fast-high playing
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 05:32:20 -0500

At 10:32 AM 11/2/98 EST, GrabnerWG wrote:
>In a message dated 11/1/98 4:41:41 PM Central Standard Time,
reedman@-----.com
>writes:
>
><< Tricks similar to that make Daphnis a snap to play!
>
>David...I will try your "trick"
>
>However...I played the Liszt last spring. With the conductors concurrence,
the
>clarinets played soft staccato eighths notes , and left the "ducka-ducka"
>stuff to the flutes. It's not that we clarinets couldn't play the passage, it
>just sounded a lot better this way! The end esult came out souding quite good
>on the tape. That was an even easier "trick". LOL!!!!!
>
Ah, but now you have offended the composer by not following his
instructions EXACTLY! Poor Franz will be burning out the bearings in his
grave! :-)

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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