Klarinet Archive - Posting 000341.txt from 2000/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Stolzman
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 06:19:31 -0500

At 12:02 AM 11/7/2000 -0500, Tristan James Butler wrote:

>Bill Hausmann wrote:
>
>> Sorry this is so ON-topic, but I had the pleasure of hearing Richard
>> Stolzman playing the Copland Concerto last night with the Midland (MI)
>> Symphony Orchestra. I found his vibrato to be no distraction at all (of
>> course, I tend to use it myself) and it appeared that he was genuinely
>> enjoying himself on stage. He plays a much freer and "jazzier"
>> interpretation than Goodman and, according to the talk he gave before the
>> concert, that is with the composer's personal blessing. He thinks that
>> Goodman kept it pretty straight in large measure to separate it from his
>> jazz performances -- keeping his classical credentials clean, so to speak.
>> I also have no complaints about his tone. The instrument he was playing,
>> he told us, was a 25 or so year-old Buffet with extensively modified bore
>> and tone holes, custom-made barrel and mouthpiece, all work done by Kalman
>> Opperman. When you are a highly successful concert solo artist, you don't
>> have to buy "off the rack," I guess!
>>
>Actually the clarinet was worked on by Kals brother in IN, George
>Opperman....the barrel and mouthpiece were handmade by Kal......

I'm only going on what he said before the concert the other night. Of
course, he might have been giving us the simplified version for general
audiences, rather than the Total Equipment Geek version for an audience of
clarinetists, which the questioner (and I) probably would have preferred. :-)

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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