Klarinet Archive - Posting 000665.txt from 2001/05

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mahler 1
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 13:36:34 -0400

You have your metaphors cross. My conversation with Mahler was in
English which I insisted he speak in order understand why he got fired
from the NY Philharmonic. Now I know. His accent was so strange that
they couldn't understand him.

Now anyone who wants to have a conversation with Shostakovich, be my
guest, but I don't talk to anyone who would write the b.c. part that he
wrote for the 2nd movement of the violin concerto. At last count, it
was 7,532 notes in 10 seconds and growing.

DNL

Lacy Schroeder wrote:
>
> 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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