Klarinet Archive - Posting 000577.txt from 1999/05

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Different pitched Clarinets timbral qualities
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 00:58:35 -0400

On Thu, 13 May 1999 15:58:33 -1300, leeson@-----.edu said:

> > 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.

Does anyone know whether it's true that Stravinsky got up and walked out
of a performance by a famous French clarinettist?

Can't remember who it was, or where I heard that, but the issue was that
the player was taking too many liberties with the score -- which, of
course, Stravinsky at the time was fighting against.

Tony
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