Klarinet Archive - Posting 000015.txt from 2001/04

From: stewart kiritz <kiritz@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: Jonathan Cohler and friends in "Clarinetissimo!"
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 13:08:37 -0400

Mario,

Re Richard Stoltzman,

Obviously Mr. Stolzman has prodigeous talents on the clarinet and musically
in general. Personally, like a previous poster, I don't much enjoy vibrato
on the clarinet except when used extremely sparingly. For this reason there
are many other clarinetists who I simply enjoy listening to more. It's just
a question of taste, not good taste or bad, but individual taste. I'd much
rather hear a Harold Wright recording, Larry Combs, many, many others.

Stewart Kiritz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Hobby" <jhobby@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] RE: Jonathan Cohler and friends in "Clarinetissimo!"

> Actually, your post reminded me of a joke I heard a week or so ago, I
think,
> on one of the NPR broadcasts. "In the sixties, we all took LSD to take
the
> brutal edge off reality. Now that we've reached 60, we take Prozac to put
> the edge of reality back on our fantasy." (Close, but not an exact quote.
> <g>)
>
> Since many of the responses concerned comments about professional jealousy
> and Richard Stoltzman, I'd add that lusting (one of the Seven Deadly
Sins?)
> after some aspect of other musician's performance -- technique, tone,
> facility, articulation; whatever -- is obviously quite common. In most
> cases, it's not a problem, but just drives us to greater efforts. It only
> becomes a problem when it becomes obsessive.
>
> At the risk of restiring the pot, I'll say that >personally< I don't like
to
> listen to RS for one reason. I don't like vibrato on the clarinet in
> "classical" performance. My personal taste, only. Obviously, he's a fine
> player, and a very popular one, and certainly a personable one, from those
> who have met him. He played a concert a year or so ago with the Nashville
> SO. I couldn't get there for the concert, but a trombonist friend did,
> taking a batch of both of our students. Everyone seemed to be quite
> impressed by his performance.
>
> Jim Hobby
>
>
> >From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.com>
> >
> >Jim,
> >
> >We all need to apologize. We get down in the dumps, the doldrums as it
were
> and
> >we just don't have anything else to do but to reach such a new low. (BTW
my
> >prozac prescription ran out.) Maybe you could offer something that would
> cheer
> >me and the rest of us up. :-)
>
>
>
>
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