Klarinet Archive - Posting 000103.txt from 2002/10

From: MVinquist@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Bartok Contrasts - To Bb or Not to Bb
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 21:41:04 -0400

Tony Pay says: >Of course, I suppose it's *possible* that someone has done a
version of the last movement entirely on the A clarinet; if so, I'd very much
like to know about it.<

Tony -

Several years ago, I heard Franklin Cohen (principal in Cleveland) do the
Contrasts. He walked out carrying one instrument, and I said to myself,
"That's an A clarinet. Where's his Bb?" He then played the entire piece on
the A clarinet, without a fluff and making it sound easy. I was there,
watching his fingers, and I still didn't believe it. He was probably born on
Mars, because no mortal could do that.

Ken Shaw

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