Klarinet Archive - Posting 000659.txt from 2001/05

From: Lacy Schroeder <LacyS@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mahler 1
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 12:00:30 -0400

Just curious, Dan, did you have your discussion in German or English? :) I
don't think Shostakovich spoke English, tak eto ochen' horosho shto ya umeio
kak govorit' po-russky (darn, it's hard to write Russian without Cyrillic
fonts!!). Just a silly thought! :^P

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lacy Schroeder [mailto:LacyS@-----.org]
> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 10:50 AM
> To: 'klarinet@-----.org'
> Subject: RE: [kl] Mahler 1
>
>
> ROTFLMAO!!!! I'd like to have a similar discussion with
> Shostakovich for
> writing some really awful technical passages...plus that one
> in the 1st
> Cello Concerto. All that tongueing in the 1st movement was
> awful. Makes you
> wonder if any of them has even *touched* a clarinet before.
>
> Lacy S.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel Leeson [mailto:leeson0@-----.net]
> > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 8:04 PM
> > To: klarinet@-----.org
> > Subject: Re: [kl] Mahler 1
> >
> >
> > Well the fact is that I went to a medium and had a personal
> discussion
> > with Mahler. The problem was that he was so full of guilt
> > that he could
> > not really come to any conclusion on anything. He simply kept
> > apolgizing for all the anguish through which he had put me.
> >
> > I told him that he had not allowed enough time to switch to
> the E-flat
> > clarinet part from the b.c. and he asked if thought that
> > perhaps a tenor
> > sax might have been more suitable. I told him to go screw himself.
> >
> > It was an interesting conversation.
> >
>
>

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