Klarinet Archive - Posting 000167.txt from 1999/06

From: "Steven J Goldman, MD" <sjgoldman@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] to Tony Pay, was- San Diego and Koechel's number.
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 18:15:01 -0400

I attended the concert that Tony gave and still have fond memories of it.
When Chris Hogwood gave a concert/seminar at Northwestern I was also there.
NU has always been in the dark ages when it comes to enlightened performance
practice (unlike DePaul or so I'm told). Some of the wind people were more
open to these ideas (such as Grover Shutze (sorry for the spelling)), but
most, especially the string people, were downright hostile. When I was
there, you tended to keep your early music interests to yourself and a few
other like-minded people. I've just reestablished my connections with the NU
Collegium, now run by Mary Springfels (we just did St. John Passion (no I
didn't find a manuscript where Bach used clarinet, I played 1st flute on a
copy of a 1720 Denner). Things have improved somewhat, but there is still a
large cabal of close-minded faculty. Nevertheless, Mary does put together
some wonderful university sponsored concerts.

Steve Goldman
Glenview, IL

sjgoldman@-----.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Pay [mailto:Tony@-----.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 1999 10:27 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] to Tony Pay, was- San Diego and Koechel's number.
>
>
> No, I never performed at Ravinia, but I have fond memories of meeting
> Larry and spending a delightful evening with him in Chicago. I was
> playing the Mozart concerto on a reconstructed period instrument with
> the Academy of Ancient Music there in the late 80s.
>
> I also remember Chris Hogwood giving an seminar at the University,
> talking about Mozart style and having the AAM players give examples, to
> a rather suspicious and at times hostile audience. Chris always seemed
> to have a gentle and erudite answer to every objection, though. It was
> an impressive display.
>
> There was a young clarinet player there who was acting as an extra
> guinea-pig for Chris's remarks about the Mozart clarinet concerto (I
> was guinea-pig number one, and certainly felt like it;-) who did rather
> well. I believe he was a student of Marcellus's, and we were rather
> hoping that the great man himself would show up.
>
> But we were assured that wasn't likely.
>
> Tony
> --
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>
> ... Dumb luck beats sound planning every time. Trust me.
>
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