Klarinet Archive - Posting 000667.txt from 2001/05

From: Lacy Schroeder <LacyS@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mahler 1
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 13:54:00 -0400

> 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

Okay, Dan, I'll ask him for you. But I hope he doesn't get upset if I end up
asking him "how much for your nose?" 8^{

I've never had the misfortune to be the sucker that had to play that
particular passage, but I'm still traumatized over those chromatic runs
across the break in the last movement of his 1st Symphony. Oh well, the guy
was only like *20* when he wrote it. I guess his concept of "challenging"
the players never changed with time and experience.

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