Klarinet Archive - Posting 000987.txt from 2000/10

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Steve Hartman and the D Clarinet
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:47:52 -0400

Steve, can I take it that the reason you have always played the
Stravinsky violin concerto on the E-flat clarinet is that you do not
have a D clarinet? Alternatively, if you had a D clarinet would you use
it on that work or would you continue to insist on playing it on an
E-flat clarinet.

For a second question, you said that "I don't know why Stravinsky chose
not to score the part for clarinet in D."

Do you think he had a reason for doing this or was it a case of him
chosing a D clarinet for no purpose whatsoever?

And lastly, do you think that the sound character of a D clarinet is so
close to that of an E-flat clarinet that the action you have taken makes
no difference to the orchestral sound palette?

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