Klarinet Archive - Posting 000110.txt from 2000/11

From: AnneLenoir@-----.net (Anne Lenoir)
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Jon Manasse's recording of the Mozart Clarinet Quintet
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 12:13:47 -0500

Dear Daniel,
Thanks for sharing about Mr. Weber. I knew Alan Balter very well at
Oberlin. What a great talent and sweet person. Jon Manasse is also a
beautiful person.
I don't want to say anything bad about Mr. Weber because I am so
grateful to him for my beautiful tone (I do sound like him! But I have
terrible technique). But he has hurt my feellings many times, to the
point where I have spent hours crying. Like when he recently sold me a
beautiful RC Prestige clarinet that played horribly flat, and I kept
calling him to send me a shorter RC barrel. He called back, in a rage,
and told me he didn't have time to answer my letter or to talk to me. I
was mentally sick for months and think I suffered a mild stroke. I lost
my articulation for a while, spoke slurred and slowly. The doctor put me
on high blood-pressure medication and I have gotten back some of my
articulation, and all of my speech, but I will never play Midsummer
Night's Dream up to tempo again. I could care less. I'm a jazz player
and don't need to articulate that fast.
Anyhow, he called me up last week to let me know that there will be
a surprize about him in the next issue of THE CLARINET. I am going to NY
with my sister, Jane, over Thanksgiving, and I doubt that he will want
to see me -- probably won't have time to talk to me either.
Thanks for sharing, and for your interesting comments on Sneezy.
ANNIE

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