Klarinet Archive - Posting 000894.txt from 2000/08

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bernstein's Bernstein
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 21:50:58 -0400

I know nothing about Bernstein's feelings on this matter, only that, on
the video tape made at the time of the recording, Carreras was having
difficulty getting the rhythms right. They even had to cut short the
recording one day that was delayed because he kept missing the rhythms
and had to do it several times. Maybe he was tired because the next day
he got it right the first time.

rgarrett@-----.edu wrote:
>
> 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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