Klarinet Archive - Posting 000797.txt from 2000/12

From: Floyd Williams <f.williams@-----.au>
Subj: Re: [kl] Information on Henri Bok?
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:05:41 -0500

Ken,
Henri is a friend of mine.He has a new book which I think is available
now.
You might want to contact him by e-mail at
henribok@-----.nl
He'll be glad to give you an update on his book.

Regards,

Kenneth Wolman wrote:
>
> Until last night, Henri Bok was a name I associated with the bass clarinet,
> but I'd been unable to find any recordings, his bass clarinet method book,
> or anything connected with him. Then last night in Tower Records on
> Broadway and 66th Street I found what I gather is a relatively new CD,
> _Worlds of Bass Clarinet_, on the Globe label. All the material is for solo
> bass clarinet; much of it appears to have been written for Bok; and one
> piece--the last--he wrote himself.
>
> There was only one copy of the CD in the store. I grabbed it. Yes, I paid
> for it on the way out:-).
>
> He seems to be an absolutely staggering technician and musician. He upper
> register sings like a flute...the lower?--well, it's a bass clarinet, after
> all.
>
> An ordinary set-up, interesting only because of the bell. According the
> notes, he plays a Selmer 25/II bass, fitted with a Pomarico crystal mp, a BG
> Tradition ligature, and uses Marca reeds. The oddity is the Rossi wooden
> bell. I presume this is a custom job, and not part of Luis Rossi's line of
> standard equipment?
>
> In any case...IS the method book readily available? At one point it was out
> of print and coming back into circulation, but I've heard nothing more. It
> appears Bok has made the rounds of various ClarinetFests. Has anyone met,
> heard, or even played with him?
>
> Ken
> ----------------------------
> Kenneth Wolman http://www.rio-cardoner.com
> and http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder.tcl?folder_id=49340
> "...perhaps we really complete those we love, fulfill their finally
> unchanging essence, when they're gone from us, when we take into ourselves
> their portions of them still available to us, to acknowledge them more
> perfectly, more purely, and do homage to the fugitive, protean forms of love
> of, and love from."--C.K. Williams, "Misgivings"
>
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Floyd Williams
Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University
Brisbane, Qld. AUSTRALIA

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