Klarinet Archive - Posting 000455.txt from 1999/05

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Open question for Dan Leeson was: Today's NY Times
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 22:04:08 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.68
> Subj: [kl] Re: Open question for Dan Leeson was: Today's NY Times (5/4/99)

> > >On Tue, 4 May 1999 07:41:07 -1300, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> In a few years,
> >> >>players who do NOT use them when playing 581 or 622 will be open
> >> >>to serious criticism from the cognoscenti (and rightly so). >>
>
> Dan, I am as open to innovation as anyone.
>
> However, I am unclear as to what I would use a Basset clarinet in A for,
> other than to play the Mozart ( an opportunity I have had ONCE in my life,
> thank God, but my never have again).

You could make it your regular orchestral A clarinet. You could rent
it to people who want to play 622 and 581. You could comission a
composer to write a work for you. You could play the several other
pieces for basset clarinet in A such as Spell/Respell. And you could
excite the hell out of a lot of clarinet players all of whom would
ask you, "What's that?".

>
> Why should I go to the expense and trouble of getting another horn? I already
> have five clarinets, and keeping them in working condition can be a major
> headache.

Am I really supposed to answer this last question or is your mind so
made up that a rational argument has become a series of barriers that
you pose as legitimate questions? I don't think you want answers to
these issues. What I think you want is for me to say, "Oh, well I
never thought about that problem. Of course you are right. I'm going
to go home and do penance."

I have time for rational dialogue but no time for questions for which
no answer will satisfy you.

>
> Dan?????????
>
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