Klarinet Archive - Posting 000917.txt from 1998/12

From: "Ed Maurey" <edsshop@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Stoltzman
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 22:07:45 -0500

I've always felt his tone was much like a harmonica's. Very reedy and, for
lack of a better word, "squeezy." He's one hell of a musician and
technician, but that tone of his just doesn't seem right to me in 18th and
19th Century music.

I have, however, always admired his streaking that dull audience in that
NYC art gallery.

Ed Maurey
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> From: CEField@-----.com
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Stoltzman
> Date: Thursday, December 24, 1998 8:58 AM
>
> Ok, I'll be among the first to stand in front of the firing squad...
>
> I like Stoltzman's playing. His technical prowess is wonderful and he is
easy
> to listen to. But he is not my favorite clarinetist. I like a more
liquidy,
> chocolaty, poetic tone. Not to be an iconoclast, but Benny Goodman is
also not
> my favorite clarinetist. The clarinetist I admire most for his playing is
> Gervase de Peyer.
>
> Beauty is in the "ear" of the beholder perhaps?
>
> Cindy
>
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