Klarinet Archive - Posting 000961.txt from 2000/09

From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Silly things with Clarinets
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 19:35:54 -0400

Tony Pay posted:

<<<Of course, the difficulty with the clarinet is that it can do practically
anything -- or rather, someone somewhere can do practically anything on the
clarinet.>>>

I suppose it's entirely possible that Robert Spring or Charlie Neidich could
have played the passage in question as written -- but I doubt it. But
that's irrelevant. The orchestra didn't hire Robert or Charlie -- *I* sure
couldn't play it, and I was the only clarinetist they were going to get.
(We didn't have Maynard Ferguson available to play the first trumpet part,
either, but that's a different story . . . )

<<<I've always found that composers are amenable to modifications if you
approach them properly.>>>

But of course, Tony . . . you are always a paragon of social grace.

<<<Doubtless your experience of working with micro$oft has helped there.>>>

Not at all; Microsofties tend to be a rather polite sort, albeit with strong
business acumen.

Prior to Microsoft, I was counsel to PACCAR Inc, a truck manufacturer
(Kenworth and Peterbilt here in the States, DAF and Foden in your neck of
the woods). I have had the pleasure of arranging the repossession of
garbage trucks in New Jersey -- an eye (and ear) opening experience indeed.

kjf

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