Klarinet Archive - Posting 000934.txt from 1998/11

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] A little story
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 07:05:24 -0500

On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Tony Pay wrote:
> When I was young, much younger than today, la la la, I encountered an
> Israeli clarinet player called Yona Ettlinger.

[SNIP]

> At the end, she said, "How should I play the last two bars?"
>
> "Well," I said, "you could do it quite a few different ways. You could
> do a bit of a ritardando, as you did. Or, you could go almost in tempo,
> and place the last chord. Or, you could do more of a diminuendo, and
> end it quietly, because the harmony lets you do that. Or,.."
>
> But at that point, she burst into tears.
> I didn't know really what to do, but I put my arm a bit awkwardly round
> her shoulders. (You'd be living dangerously doing that nowadays.)
> "What's the matter?" I said.
> "Well, he's dead, and now I'll *never know* how I should play it!"

Oh for Pete's sake.

Roger Garrett
Illinois Wesleyan University

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