Klarinet Archive - Posting 000300.txt from 2001/11

From: "Robert Moody" <LetsReason@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] American "Clarinet Sound"?
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 20:39:04 -0500

Personally, I don't think there *is* an American sound. I think that the
best I can do is conclude that American players have a large variety of
sounds.

Harold Wright was an exquisite musician and is a great example of that whole
Moyse approach to playing. Just wonderful to listen to...but his "sound" or
"timbre" or "tone" was not my favorite (though I DO love it).

I personally lean towards the Karl Leister (though sometimes too dark and
uneventful in the past, for my taste), Stefan Zimmer and Dieter Klocker
sounds. I really like the Dieter Klocker sound right now. Very warm and
charming.

The thing is, in America (or any other place, I imagine), you can find
successful players playing with a larger varieties of sounds. This is why I
don't feel there is a distinctly "American" sound. Though I do believe the
there *used* to be distinctively national sounds or *schools* of sounds.

Anyone know any other players that have the Dieter Klocker "type" of sound.
What school might YOU place his sound in and what names have come from that
school of playing?

Robert

Isabelle? Are you the same Isabelle Chan that was doing her Masters work at
UMKC in 1996?

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