Klarinet Archive - Posting 000489.txt from 2000/03

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: "Major" clarinetist: a tangent thread
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 00:45:22 -0500

--- David Blumberg <reedman@-----.com> wrote:

> Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com> Subject: [kl] "Major" clarinetist: a
> tangent thread --- David Blumberg <reedman@-----.com> wrote: > > From: Jane
> S Wilson <claireannette@-----.net> > > How about Michele Zukovsky ? >
> YES!! Congrats. How did you guess her?? Interesting. She crossed my mind
> only fleetingly. I knew of her distinction re: a woman in a principal
> position, but your categorization of her as a "star" among the ranks of
> Drucker, Gigliotti, Shifrin, Cohen, Opperman, and perhaps Marcellus and
> Mazzeo (to think posthumously as well) seems a little off. No disre- spect
> intended of course, but to my mind, one quality of a "major" "star" player
> would be the level of their exposure. Everybody knows who she is,
> naturally, but the number of other names that came up, before hers was
> finally mentioned, really points to how subject- ive the criteria really
> are. How do we define a "REALLY BIG STAR" among clarinetists? -- Neil
>
> I would argue it with you, but am too tired, I just had a long phone
> conversation with James Galway.

Are there objective criteria for defining a "really big star"
among clarinetists? Can we as a collaborative list arrive at
a specific model for such a definition? I'll be surprised if
we can do this and capture all of the names that were mentioned
in your guessing game. And then ranking them in order of rel-
ative "star"-ness seems even "more impossible" (kinda like
being "slightly pregnant" I suppose). 'Might be fun to try,
though.

-- Neil
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