Klarinet Archive - Posting 000163.txt from 1999/05

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Orchestral Rep Question
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 04:42:06 -0400

Not being able to transpose - or believing they can't - is the real reason
for some people buying C clarinets.
Roger S.

On Thu, 6 May 1999, Tony Pay wrote:

> Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 20:37:38 +0100
> From: Tony Pay <Tony@-----.uk>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Orchestral Rep Question
>
> On Thu, 6 May 1999 14:35:20 -0400, dnietham@-----.edu said:
>
> [snip]
>
> > I'm sure there are a lot more. The color really is different (even in
> > Beethoven - the biggest surprise to me) and really matters. Enjoy it!
>
> Seconded.
>
> Two stories:
>
> When I first bought my C clarinet, around 1972 or so, I was the first
> clarinet in the RPO, and we were recording a Verdi opera. I took the
> instrument out to warm it up, and the very nice Italian language coach
> -- the man whose job it was to make sure that the English, American,
> German etc cast pronounced the Italian properly -- looked up, and
> practically ran down the hall from the back. "Clarinetto in Do,
> clarinetto in Do!" he said. "Very important -- but, no-one play eet
> nowadays!"
>
> And a few years later I was playing guest principal in another
> well-known British orchestra in Schubert 9, and apologised to the first
> oboe as we began the first rehearsal. "It'll take me a couple of
> minutes to settle down, pitch-wise," I said. "I haven't played it for a
> bit."
>
> "Whose idea was it to play it on that, anyway?" said the first bassoon.
>
> "Er, Schubert's?" I said.
>
> But it's really much more normal to do it now. And quite right too.
>
> I do recall a student of mine, though, around 15 years ago, saying that
> he didn't think he'd accept my offer of a loan of a second C clarinet I
> had by then bought, in order to play something written for the
> instrument.
>
> "Why not?" I said. "I really don't mind; I'm sure you'll look after
> it."
>
> "No, it's not that," he said, "I'll look stupid. Everyone will think I
> can't transpose!"
>
> Tony
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