Klarinet Archive - Posting 000575.txt from 1999/05

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Different pitched Clarinets timbral qualities
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 00:58:33 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.32
> Subj: Re: [kl] Different pitched Clarinets timbral qualities

>
>
> JW schrieb:
>
> > Some composers do/did indeed write for specific clarinets. Stravinsky
> > is one in particular, ala his 'Three Pieces'. He was very specific
> > about wanting the 'A' stuff played on A clarinet, not just because of
> > pitch, but timbre...
>
> - snip -
>
> Mitchell Lurie told me during a lesson on the Stravinksy 3 pieces that
> Stravinsky himself once actually stopped a performance because the
> clarinettist had not changed instruments for the third mvt.

The anecdote was first reported on by Rufus Airey (spelling?) who
wrote it up around 1950 or so. Stravinsky was sitting in on a
rehearsal where Airey was trying out the hall. Airey played the
pieces and Stravinsky interrupted him (some ear!!) to say, "I wrote
that movement for A clarinet because that is what I wanted. Please
play it on A." Airey complied.

>
> David
> David Glenn
> notestaff@-----.de
>
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