Klarinet Archive - Posting 000460.txt from 2002/11

From: Jeremy A Schiffer <schiffer@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Dark Sound
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:54:49 -0500

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, William Wright wrote:

> Flexibility does not absolve us from trying to define or understand each
> particular tone. But I think that Tony's point that a competent
> clarinetist cannot be described as having a single tone has been
> overlooked while we search for words to deal with tone.

This reminds me of my first klezmer lesson with Margot Leverett, in which
she said "you have a very nice sound on the clarinet; now, you need to
learn how to create many other sounds [in order to express different
moods and feelings]."

Much of the problem, perhaps, stems from the very narrow "desirable" tone
range in modern classical clarinet playing? Where flexibility and
individuality are furiously stamped out as though they were inimical to
music itself.

There is no holy grail of tone, and it seems that the search for such a
thing is an undesirable, yet almost unavoidable, characteristic of the
modern musician...

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