Klarinet Archive - Posting 000281.txt from 2001/10

From: Jay Niepoetter <Niep@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] And now for some new news
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:56:50 -0400

Dan,

your spirit is a welcomed relief here :)

hope you get a "kick-butt basset horn" for the "kick-butt basset horn
year" :)

jay

Daniel Leeson wrote:
>
> Within two weeks I will receive what I have every expectation of
> receiving my treasure. And in explanation, let me state that the
> treasure is a brand new, custom designed, one-off, cocobolo wood basset
> horn with gold plated keys, and a wooden bell. It is a narrow bore,
> soprano mouthpiece instrument made at my request by Steve Fox of
> Canada.
> I have neither seen the instrument nor played it, and I have no
> expectations of having to report back to the list that I do not like it.
> Fox has a good reputation and I expect it to be a superior example of
> his work.
>
> As some of you know, I have not played for around 10 years so I must do
> some work to get back into shape. I'll not be interested in clarinet,
> though I still have two in very nice working order, thanks to Clark
> Fobes. There is little in the clarinet repertoire that I really am
> interested in playing. Maybe Turkey in the Straw, but not much else.
>
> So why have I spent a fortune to order this thing? Excellent question.
> Very perceptive of you to have asked.
>
> I am preparing for 2006, should I have the privilege of living that
> long. And during that year, which will be the last one in which I will
> play, I intend to do as many performances of K. 361 and K. 626 as I can
> get hired to play or as I can bribe people into hiring me to play.
>
> It will be the quarter millenium commemoration of Mozart's birth and I
> have no intentions of sitting on the sidelines while someone else plays
> 361 and 626. It will be a kick-butt basset horn year for me.
>
> Following that year, I will sell that basset horn for a fortune so start
> saving your money, you who are drooling and slobbering from the lips at
> the idea of a narrow-bored, cocobolo wood basset horn (with a peg of
> course).
>
> Assuming that I get through that year in one piece, that will have been
> (a rarely used tense -- "will have been") four great Mozart events of my
> lifetime. First 1941, the 150th anniversary of his death, then 1956 the
> 200th anniversary of his birth, then 1991 the 200th anniversary of his
> death, and next 2006, the quarter millenium celebration recognizing the
> 250th anniversary of his birth. I fully expect there to be several
> festivals at various colleges around the US commemorating the event with
> special attention paid to Mozart's wind music, for which the American
> music schools have a special and wonderful affinity. But there will
> also be performances of lots of his other music too.
>
> I even have a sort of commitment that there will be a Gran Partitta
> festival in 2006 involving multiple performances of the work, technical
> papers, and discussions on this, the most important wind band work ever
> written (with the possible exception of Eric Leizden's arrangement of
> "Yes, We Have No Bananas" for concert band).
>
> So for those of you who have complained about KLARINET not having had
> much to say of an exciting nature recently, I say that all may bow down
> in reverence to my narrow-bored cocobolo wood basset horn with gold
> plated keys made by Steve Fox of Canada. You may have to wear
> sunglasses to see it.
>
> For Ed Lacy and his apology to the list for not having had much on it to
> interest his new colleague (and Bob Spring's pupil from Phoenix), I hope
> to start a new trend here. So stick around Ed (and his new colleague).
>
> IT'S BASSET HORN TIME!!!!
> --
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> ** Dan Leeson **
> ** leeson0@-----.net **
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