Klarinet Archive - Posting 000694.txt from 2002/11

From: "Russell Harlow" <lharlow@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] McLane's Description of His Sound
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:58:42 -0500

Clarence:
I feel you are right about hearing the qualities. It goes farther - I think
that very seldom does a player create a beautiful sound on any instrument
that is by accident, that is, he or she just picks it up without an
intentional desire to creat a quality that is heard in the mind first. So
many clarinetists have spoken about this - Weber,Thurston, to name two. Also
Robert Marcellus asked his students to listen a lot to the older players who
created great sonorities in his "retrospectives". I find it interesting to
listen to the Miaskovsky with McLane and then to Wright doing Sibelius 1st
Symphony, then early Bonade and early McGinnis and Bonade in Cleveland (when
his sound had changed) and Marcellus to hear how a quality can be passed
from teacher to student.
Thank you for telling me about the Library of congress recordings I didn't
know about. Do you have copies of them? I would like to have them if you do.
If you would want the Beethoven 6 and Tchaikovsky 6 I have with Hamelin I
would be happy to send you copies. Best
Russell

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>From: CGBeale@-----.com
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: [kl] McLane's Description of His Sound
>Date: Wed, Nov 13, 2002, 8:01 PM
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> I agree, Russell, that McLane's words are a description of the ideal
> qualities of the sound he tried to produce. I also think some of those
> qualities can be heard on recordings he made.
>
> In addition to some of the Philadelphia recordings, I find very interesting
> the McLane 1947 Library of Congress performances of the Schubert Octet and
> the Beethoven Septet rebroadcast in 1990. Considering the conditions under
> which the recordings were made I think the sound is good. Too bad the LOC
> and the Bridge CD label haven't made those performances available
> commercially.
>
> Thanks for the information about the Hamelin/Boston recordings. I did not
> know the Boston Symphony had made any recordings when Hamelin was principal
> clarinet. It will be fun trying to locate those 78's. It would be nice if
> someone would do a Hamelin discography and publish it somewhere like in The
> Clarinet magazine. Or did you exhaust the possibilities?
>
> Clarence Beale
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