Klarinet Archive - Posting 000170.txt from 1999/05

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re C clarinet
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 14:57:39 -0400

A sad but splendid story!
Roger S.

On Fri, 7 May 1999, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 05:57:35 -1300
> From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Re C clarinet
>
> I must be out of it. The idea that the use of a C clarinet should
> be avoided for fear of social pressure caused by the presumption that
> one does so because one cannot transpose is so convoluted (even more so
> than this sentence) as to leave me struggling to come to the surface.
>
> I don't even know how to combat such foolishness. I'm getting old.
>
> And this very thing once happened to me, though I did not find out about
> it for a long time. I was hired to play a rehearsal of Beethoven's
> Missa Solemnis (orchestral rehearsal only - no performance) in the
> living room of a very rich New Jersey lady by the name of Charlotte
> Bergen. Her house was big enough to put an orchestra in the
> living room! She hired this orchestra to learn how to conduct the
> work which she finally did in NY with most of the NY Philharmonic
> that she had hired out of her own pocket, and she got good reviews
> as a conductor all of which shows how little reviewers know about
> anything. Anyway ...
>
> Since I knew the music and had played it, I showed up with 3 clarinets,
> one in C. Bill Shadel was playing first and I second. At the
> break, the lady conductor asked me why I had 3 clarinets and when
> I proudly told her that one was a C as requested by the music, she
> thanked me and I was dismissed from the gig after that. There were
> lots more rehearsals but I was not invited to participate and I did not
> know why.
>
> Well, this fruitcake of a conductor called one of NY's most important
> clarinetists and asked him why I needed a C clarinet and this SCHMUCK
> told her to fire me because it was obvious I could not transpose. And
> I was fired from the gig because of this mental midget (but wonderful
> clarinet player) was using the same kind of logic that was reported
> on this list just the other day.
>
>
>
>
> =======================================
> Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
> leeson@-----.edu
> =======================================
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