Klarinet Archive - Posting 000623.txt from 2000/01

From: alevin@-----. Levin)
Subj: Re: [kl] Bb Clarinet part for Mozart clarinet quintet?
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 01:47:42 -0500

I remember being taught as "gospel" in the 60's and 70's that Muehlfeld's
tone was thin and uncharacteristic of the clarinet. My recollection is
that it was thought to be more string-like, and not what we would want or
expect. (I've always suspected that the sound was somewhere between bad
klezmer and bad Dixieland.) I remember no reference to volume. His forte
was supposed to be technical facility.

Allen Levin

At 01:16 AM 1/17/00 GMT, you wrote:
>On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 20:01:01 -0500, charette@-----.org said:
>
>> Tony wrote:
>>
>> > I think that the English musician was a viola player, and I remember
>> > one phrase: he said that Muehlfeld's sound was "a joke" as far as he
>> > was concerned.
>>
>> Perhaps the same violist that appears in "Clarinet" by Jack Brymer,
>> though it doesn't seem to be that the violist thought of Muhlfeld's
>> playing as a joke. (I have this quote on a section concerning Vibrato
>> on http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet)
>
>[snip]
>
>Yes, I've clearly conflated two reports in my mind. Obviously this is
>the viola player. And certainly the phrase "a warm tone" and the
>adjective "fiery" go against the notion that Muehlfeld's tone was at all
>weak.
>
>But I'm sure that there is a 'joke' comment from one listener. I
>remember being very struck by it, perhaps even a bit shocked. But
>perhaps, as David suggested, it was too loud for some, and *that* was
>the joke. Charles Draper would, I think, have been the player
>most providing the context for a contemporary British judgement.
>
>Tony
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