Klarinet Archive - Posting 000598.txt from 2001/08

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] bellison and k. 622
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 19:39:26 -0400

At 03:21 PM 08/31/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>But I was too critical of it. It's awful from today's standpoint but in
>those days it was the cat's meow. It was also the very first edition that
>I ever used to learn that piece, so I should not have bit the hand
>that fed me.

Dan,

I'm awfully glad to know this - because it was the edition I was first
given too. However, your comments since that time have been very
beneficial in helping me to determine better versions of it - namely, the
ones you mentioned earlier as being very good.

Just a quick comment about Bb version vs. A version. If one is of the
opinion that the piece should not be played until college or later - than A
version all the way. If one is of the opinion that the piece should be
learned by younger students and gradually adapted and built upon as years
go by (as I was and many other wonderful performers - probably even Dan!),
then I have no problem with the Be version.

Thanks for such illuminating and interesting posts on the subject.

Best wishes,
Roger Garrett

Clarinet Professor
Director, Symphonic Winds
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
Phone: (309) 556-3268
Fax: (309) 556-3121

"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me,
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best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until
the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't
amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, 10 angels swearing I
was right would make no difference."
-Abraham Lincoln

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