Klarinet Archive - Posting 000694.txt from 2000/01

From: alevin@-----. Levin)
Subj: Re: [kl] Bb Clarinet part for Mozart clarinet quintet?
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 14:26:49 -0500

Tony:

My information on Muehlfeld came from two "sources": my own teacher,
Dennis Kudlawiec - then at Dickinson College, now at University of Southern
Mississippi (I think) - and several of your countrymen studying at
Fontainebleau when i was there in "68. I want to say that I also read it
in an English text on the physics of woodwinds; but that was more than 30
years ago. I don't remember such things as I want to think that I do.

I don't recall ever reading an account of Stadler's playing that I could
accept. (Too many intervening persons retelling the story.) The real
problem is that whatever these men sounded like, they certainly pleased
their audiences. But performance standards and tastes seem to change
without any universal reference points except basic facts - just like the
interpretation of history.

Today many people admire Benny Goodman's "classical" recordings; but there
is no way that I would be happy with his performance of the Mozart
concerto. On the other hand his Weber recordings are OK. Since the
recordings exist, 50 years from now his style might be the desired model.

For that matter, Acker Bilk's made a pretty good living.

Allen

At 10:57 PM 1/19/00 +0000, you wrote:
>On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:53:46 -0500 "Allen J. Levin"
><alevin@-----.net> wrote:
>
>> I remember being taught as "gospel" in the 60's and 70's that
>> Muehlfeld's tone was thin and uncharacteristic of the clarinet.
>
>Did he/she/they mention the evidence for teaching you that?
>
>> My recollection is that it was thought to be more string-like, and
>> not what we would want or expect.
>
>Which 'we' is that?
>
>> (I've always suspected that the sound was somewhere between bad
>> klezmer and bad Dixieland.)
>
>Oh.
>
>On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:52:51 -0500, "Allen J. Levin"
><alevin@-----.net> further wrote:
>
>> I tend to think that he was more like Acker Bilk - but with some
>> technique!
>
>What did you think of Stadler, Allen?
>
>Tony
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