Klarinet Archive - Posting 001131.txt from 2000/05

From: Don Longacre <nw2v@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: Wrong Instrument
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:34:58 -0400

Bill Hausman writes:

>Actually, I thought the saxophone was considered to be most like the human
>voice. They even use on in the offstage chorus in Holst's "The Planets,"
>as I understand it, to help keep the pitch. It blends in so well as to be
>unheard.

Yes, I concur. Especially the tenor sax, played in the quiet, unamplified
ambience of intimacy with the listener. It is "whispering in your ear"
the sweet nothings of a great ballad, a plaintive yearning, an unrequited
love. It can be the human voice, primitive or sophisticated, making the
statement; this is how I feel, share with me this fabric of closeness. In
and out of a sub-tone mood noodling in the low register to the upper range
tones like the tinkle of glass. Molto Expressivo!

Don Longacre, who...
is not so old he can't remember the
candle-lit, checkered table cloth and
the Chianti, and the eye contact.

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