Klarinet Archive - Posting 000263.txt from 2002/12

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Someone mentioned the Gran Partita!
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:24:44 -0500

I am delighted that you had such a wonderful experience with such a
magnificent composition. The mouthpiece you played on was, effectively,
an alto clarinet mouthpiece and the instrument itself was a wide bored
model. Buffet left the narrow bore model precisely because it was (when
made by them) characteristically stuffy, as you noted.

Did you play first or second, not that it matters? When I played the
work with Larry in Montreal, I was honored to play second to such an
artist as he.

Dan Leeson

Lacy Schroeder wrote:
> Hi, list!
>
> I just wanted to tell Dan that I was particularly excited to play
> basset horn in his edition of the Gran Partita! We did it last month at
> Northwestern with Dr. Thompson. The basset horns at school are these
> beautiful creatures, Buffet Prestige models that are about 2 years old.
> They
> played so marvelously, I was so amazed because the one that I had tried
> before was an older one and was quite stuffy. I think a big difference
> was the mouthpiece, because the one I just described took a soprano
> mouthpiece, and the one I played on at school took basset mouthpieces
> (?)
> and fit with alto sax reeds. The instrument does have this somewhat
> unearthly sound, and we (the other basset player and I) received many
> compliments! Larry Combs was at the performance and expressed his
> enjoyment
> of the performance to Dr. Thompson, and when she told me about it I was
> happy to hear it of course, but glad that I didn't know he was there
> until after the concert!
>
> I'm also studying with Russell Dagon, who is a fantastic teacher and
> can pick out the tiniest things that make a phrase breathe and phrase so
>
> much better. He's just a great musician and it's such a privilege to
> work with him! I feel my playing improve already.
>
> Hope all's well with everyone!
>
> Lacy
>
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