Klarinet Archive - Posting 000891.txt from 2000/08

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Bernstein's Bernstein
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 21:36:46 -0400

At 07:00 PM 08/27/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>At 12:28 AM 08/28/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>Dan Leeson wrote (in jest but without any corroborating evidence to support):
>>> That's because Carreras couldn't get the rhythms right!!

Actually, I apoligize - I don't actually know that Dan wrote this in jest.
It just seemed as though he was making light of the way Carreras sang. I
probablly should have said that Dan was reporting what he heard on the
recording or video - not what he knows about Bernstein's feelings.

Best wishes,
Roger Garrett

Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director, Symphonic Winds
Advisor, IWU Recording Services
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
(309) 556-3268

A Clarinetist's Revenge is sometimes personified by the following excerpt
from the London Daily News, circa 1926:

"The saxophone is a long metal instrument bent at both ends. It is alleged
to be musical. As regards markings, the creature has a series of tiny taps
stuck upon it, apparently at random. These taps are very sensitive: when
touched they cause the instrument to utter miserable sounds suggesting
untold agony. Sometimes it bursts into tears. At either end there is a
hole. People, sometimes for no reason at all, blow down the small end of
the saxophone which then shrieks and moans."

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