Klarinet Archive - Posting 000002.txt from 2001/09

From: "Russ Conjerti" <rvconjerti@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] For Ken Shaw
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 01:47:53 -0400

>From Dan Leeson:
>
> But just in case I never said it strongly enough in the past, I suggest
> that the failure to realize the importance of the instrument's character
> and contribution towards the overall palette is the single most
> disguishing failure of contemporary clarinettists in today's orchestras.
> The willingness to ignore that character is demonstrated by selecting
> whichever instrument is the player's preference, frequently in
> contradiction to what is requested, and particularly so in the case of
> the clarinet in C. This, I suggest, is an indication of the
> unimportance that most players assign to the question.
>
> Dan

I'm a not very experienced amateur who got to play the (4th part, I
think...the one that includes the bass clarinet part) Mahler Symphony #1
with a community orchestra. No one had any problem with me playing the
entire 4th movement which is written for C clarinet on my Bb, but it was out
of the question for me to play the short klezmer-like Eb part in the 3rd
movement on Bb. Since I had neither access to nor experience with an Eb, it
was covered by one of the other clarinetists.

Do you think it was because it was played together with the other Eb, or is
there just a more pronounced difference transposing from Eb to Bb than from
C to Bb? I had wondered at the time if they were just afraid to trust me
with that very exposed part.

Russ Conjerti

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