Klarinet Archive - Posting 000645.txt from 2001/10

From: "Robert Moody" <LetsReason@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] If you are interested
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 17:13:15 -0400

First, thank you Tony for your comments. I appreciate hearing from you.

The strings were the graduate string quartet at the University of Missouri
at Kansas City in 1996. I was very lucky to play with them. They took the
piece seriously as a part of their serious repertoire and not, in any way
whatsoever, as an accompaniment. You and I know the value of the piece, but
often groups I have encountered at the collegiate level are so into playing
their own standard rep. that when a solo instrument comes to ask them to
play a piece, they have approached it as asking them to "accompany" you.
They were extremely open and all of them were familiar with the place of the
Brahms Quintet in the general rep. of both the clarinet and string quartet
lit. I totally approached playing (this was my first time) as a member of a
chamber group where all parts were equal. I looked upon myself as merely
another member of the group, but with a unique color to add.

I placed another, shorter, snipit of the Brahms (second movement, from that
performance) up for my friend Mark (who was briefly a summer student of mine
who is now doing his DMA in Florida with Kowalsky). He wanted to hear some
of the "harder" stuff. LOL! I'm waiting for him to put some of his Reger
Sonata up from a recital he did. ;-)

Here is the link for the other part, once again....if you're interested.

http://www.musix4me.com/clarinet/Brahms2.mp3

Thanks again for you comments.

Robert

P.S. I will never claim to be a soloist. I much prefer to be a unique,
solo part of a chamber ensemble like this than a soloist. No comparison.

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