Klarinet Archive - Posting 000245.txt from 2000/10

From: alevin@-----. Levin)
Subj: Re: [kl] Silly things with Clarinets
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 11:04:11 -0400

Some 40 years ago George Crumb wrote a wonderful piece called "Night Music
I" which calls for a wide variety of percussion instruments. One is a
"water gong" - a gong which is struck and lowered into or removed from a
barrel of water. It is a very eerie sound.

At 01:34 PM 10/1/00 EDT, you wrote:
>I don't know if someone was joking or not, but years ago I remember hearing
>about a clarinet quartet for four underwater clarinets. I heard that it is
>played with a trash can full of water in front of each player and at certain
>times during the piece, a portion of the clarinet goes in the water and you
>get all kinds of bubbling effects (low E in particular). The story I heard
>was that you use plastic clarinets padded with Valentino or other synthetic
>pads. This was probably a joke, but they sounded serious. I never
disagreed
>or disagreed, just listened since they did sound serious. We were always
>playing jokes on each other in college like saying that Leopold Stokowski
>real name was Leo Stokes but he changed it to sound more famous. I never
saw
>the music or heard who wrote it, but it does bring up some interesting
mental
>images.
>James Marioneaux
>
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