Klarinet Archive - Posting 000754.txt from 2002/07

From: The Ciompi Family <deal5@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music the makes you Wince (and a new question...)
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 01:11:52 -0400

Dear Lelia,
We seem to be the same age. When I was taking Summer lessons with Earl Juhas
at Colorado College, I told him I wanted to play like Acker Bilk. He just glared
at me and kept teaching!
Arturo Ciompi

LeliaLoban@-----.com wrote:

> Karona Poindexter wrote,
> >Actually, a clarinet intro is in one of Sting's songs on his
> >latest CD. But he does different genres and the solo is
> >more jazzy than anything else.
>
> Anyone else remember Acker Bilk's solo clarinet playing in his Top Forty Hit,
> "Stranger On the Shore," from 1962? I liked it a lot back then (age 12),
> although today I find the vibrato a tad much. "Stranger on the Shore" was
> quite an anomaly for cookie cutter Top Forty at the time. "Stranger" wasn't
> rock, it wasn't standard pop, it wasn't swing, it wasn't classical--but
> despite its mellowness, it wasn't elevator music, either.
>
> Lelia
>
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