Klarinet Archive - Posting 001083.txt from 2000/07

From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] teachers of...
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 01:08:15 -0400

Lecture: The subject lies in shark infested waters
There seeming to be no pattern or rationale.
I am unable, for example, to explain why
Philipp Dreisbach (1891-1980) in Germany
played with vibrato, but his few recordings
show that he did! (CC 0010)
When I wrote the history of "The Clarinet
on Record" (c.1994) for the Cambridge Companion
Colin Lawson asked if I had read Philip's book (1992).
However, I avoided the subject of performance influences
and simply presented to facts as I found them with as little
interpretation as possible. Compositional influences are
a little safer.

Delecluse and Lancelot (1920-) studied with Auguste Perier
Delecuse was professor of clarinet at the Paris Con. 1949-78
No one plays like either of them now.....
Have you heard any of Perier's recordings? (CC0005 and 0010)
Ted Planas used to comment about his teacher Delecluse
(he was a terror) en route from pillar drill to lathe
but it is now too late to ask him. Delecluse once described
Leister's tone as "curious". There are still many who remember
Delecluse - Phillip Cuper for instance. Delecluse students include
Suzanne Stephens (USA/Germany), Seiji Yokokawa (Japan)
and Algirdas Budrys ((Lithuania)

Recordings can be unfair, unrepresentative and misleading
For example Thurston left very few recordings.
He hated making recordings, but he was a giant-killer in the concert hall
or recital room. His best, the Bliss Quintet, has not yet been
released complete on CD. The Finale is on Clarinet Classics CC 0005
He was the first ever to record the Brahms Quintet complete at the age of
about 21-2!
I have heard all of his commercial recordings and some of them
are such that it would be inappropriate to comment here.

M

Floyd Williams
Date: 30 July 2000 09:03
Subject: Re: [kl] teachers of...

>I'm thinking about doing a lecture on 20th c clarinet performance
>styles,and I would like to trace players back through their teachers.
>snip<
I'm not sure exactly where it will lead,but your information is very
helpful.
>Another player whose teacher I've never seen mentioned is Ullysse
>Delecluse.
>Does anyone know his teacher?
>
>regards,
>
>Michael Bryant wrote:
>>
>> >Gervaise de Peyer (1926-) played the clarinet at 12,
>> later studied with Frederick Thurston, but did not want to play like him
>> 1944- RCM
>> Piano was first instrument, National Service 1946-48,
>> also studied with Cuhazac in Paris.
>>
>> >Jack Brymer, (1915-) studied with his father, otherwise largely self
taught
>> played simple system until 1937
>>
>> >Reginald Kell (1906-81) studied violin with his father, hated it,
>> at first self taught on the clarinet, then studied with Haydn Draper, RAM
>>
>> >Bernard Walton (1917-1962?) RCM Thurston (?)
>>
>> >Frederick Thurston (1901-53) playing at 7, studied with Charles Draper
RCM
>>
>> I am least certain of my facts about Bernard Walton
>> but I know the family a little and could ask if it is vital
>>
>> MB
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Floyd Williams <f.williams@-----.au>
>> To: klarinet@-----.org>
>> Date: 29 July 2000 10:17
>> Subject: [kl] teachers of...
>>
>> >I wonder if someone can tell me the principal teachers of the following
>> >clarinettists:
>> >Gervaise DePeyer
>> >Jack Brymer
>> >Reginald Kell
>> >Bernard Walton
>> >and is it correct that Charles Draper taught Frederic Thurston?
>> >
>> >thanks,
>> >
>> >--
>> >Floyd Williams
>> >Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University
>> >Brisbane, Qld. AUSTRALIA
>> >
>> >
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