Klarinet Archive - Posting 000400.txt from 1999/04

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bells up in Mahler
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 05:50:43 -0400

Presumably, by 2099 the calendar will be 5 days out of synch......
Roger S.

On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Note Staff Unlimited wrote:

> Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 21:22:02 +0200
> From: Note Staff Unlimited <notestaff@-----.ch>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Bells up in Mahler
>
>
>
> Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu schrieb:
>
> > I believe the matter of bells up to be ill thought out by the
> > editors of the Mahler symphonies. At the very time that the
> > soprano clarinets are directed to play bells up, the bass clarinet
> > is invariably given the same direction. It is as if no thought at
> > all were given to the impossibility of that act for bass. I suspect
> > that the Mahler autograph is unclear in terms of his placement of
> > "Bells up" and the editor, in order to play it safe, puts it everywhere,
> > but the matter cannot apply to the b.c.
> >
> > =======================================
> > Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
> > leeson@-----.edu
> > =======================================
> >
>
> "Newsflash April 6, 2099: The latest newcomer in the Buffet line of Elkart,
> Indiana is a straight bass clarinet which is especially made for historic
> performances of Mahler Symphonies. Recent research has shown that all the
> clarinettists in the orchestra - including the bass clarinettist were, at
> times, required to put their bells up in the air to play certain loud
> passages...."
>
> David
> David Glenn
> notestaff@-----.ch
>
>
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