Klarinet Archive - Posting 000011.txt from 2001/09

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] For Ken Shaw
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 11:47:50 -0400

I really can't comment on the circumstances because I don't know what
the other players had in mind. Who knows what the level of discomfort
that the other players had (if any) was responsible for their action in
your case?

Dan

Russ Conjerti wrote:
>
> >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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