Klarinet Archive - Posting 001024.txt from 2000/01

From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Van Cott Information Services/Hadcock's "Working Clarinetist"
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 07:54:05 -0500

Shameless but unsolicited plug (2 of them in one message - Neil, hit that
delete key now!!)

I made an order I'd meant to make for a long time with Gary Van Cott. His
business accepting credit card orders made it easy, and the service was
personal and as swift as the US Postal Service in a snowstorm would allow
it to be. Since Gary has a great collection of Clarinet books and CDs
that are hard (if not impossible) to find elsewhere, I highly recommend
him.

Peter Hadcock book "The Working Clarinetist" was a real gem. It arrived
today, and I took the book on the bus to a runout concert. That gave me
three hours to peruse the material, and all I can say is "Run, do not
walk, to the nearest place that sells this book!" Since you're reading
this at your computer, see the paragraph above!! The bulk of the book is
excerpts, carefully put together, with all the important passages and
commentary about how to play them - good, solid, practical advice, born
of 25 years in the Boston Symphony. Included are Kodaly "Galanta Dances",
Bartok "Miraculous Mandarin", Beethoven and Brahms "audition" symphonies
- all the standard stuff. A few Eb excerpts that escaped the Eb excerpt
book are included here - Copland "El Salon Mexico" and Bernstein "On the
Town". I do wish he'd included second parts for some excerpts -
Mendelssohn "Scherzo" and "Italian" Symphony - "Petrouchka" - "Mandarin"
to name a few.

There are also areas about embouchure, articulation, reeds and reed
making, mouthpieces - lots of practical information for the aspiring
clarinetist, the professional clarinetist, and the clarinet teacher. All
of this is put together in a readable way, with a laminated heavy cover
and a metal ring binding, published by Roncorp.

If I get to have one quibble, it's about the layout - I found myself
doing a lot of page flipping because the explanations were often not on
the same or facing pages as the musical examples. But given the value of
the material in this book, that's a very small complaint. This is a "must
have" for anyone who plays the clarinet.

My $0.02

David

David Niethamer
Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
dnietham@-----.edu
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/

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