Klarinet Archive - Posting 001090.txt from 2000/12

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: Baker
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 19:28:27 -0500

--- David Blumberg <reedman@-----.com> wrote:

> As a Flutist that may be true, but as a performer who is known around the
> world, it isn't. James Galway, and Rampal far (FAR) out number Baker as to
> name recognition, and except in music circles, Flutists, etc. Even in music
> circles, Galway, and Rampal are known where Baker is not. Baker is an
> amazing teacher, and performer, but not in the league of Heifetz as to
> being World Renound other then to fellow musicians. I would say that Baker
> is to the Flute what Galimian, or Delay was/is to the Violin.

I've been listening to the classical music radio stations since I was
around 11 years old, and the Galway/Rampal phenomenon has been ubiquitous
from that time forward in my life. Julius Baker was mentioned on occa-
sion, about as often as Michel Debost and Aurel Nicolet, but never with
the frequency of G & R. Rampal's death ealier this year (in May, I think)
was actually somewhat of a shock to my system, because he had been such an
entrenched part of my psyche for so long. He and Galway almost seemed like
they would live forever. 'Same thing goes for Maurice Andre' on trumpet
(I think Andre' is still alive, and Galway is very much so). With re-
spect to Baker's teaching abilities, the friend I mentioned earlier
(the current Principal Flute of Atlanta who studied with him at Curtis)
once told me that he didn't so much "teach" as merely play and ask that
his students mimic him. But then, that too is a valid teaching method,
and his students (all of them already on the cusp of technical and musi-
cal mastery) certainly bear out the success of his approach.

-- Neil

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