Klarinet Archive - Posting 000979.txt from 2000/10

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Critics (fwd)
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 04:07:23 -0400

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From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:57:26 +0100
Subject: Re: [kl] Critics

In message <200010180352.e9I3qKO00095@-----.org writes:
> on 10/16/00 2:22 PM, Daniel Leeson wrote:
>
> >Examine the writings of Eduard Hanslick, Will Crutchfield, and even
> >George Bernard Shaw (who often did not know what the hell he was talking
> >about but he said it gloriously).
>
> Dan, you're only saying those glowing things about Bernie because he used
> "Cor de Basetto" as his nom de plume! I wonder if he even knew what a
> basset horn is?
>
> David
>
> David Niethamer
> Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
> dnietham@-----.edu
> http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/
>
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Actually, it was "Corno di Bassetto", and he *did* know what one was - according to him,
at least. There is a reference somewhere in his oeuvre to its "lugubrious" sound.
Roger S.

Michael Bryant's got it right - I think I was
confusing GBS with that other acerbic music crit. Berlioz.

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