Klarinet Archive - Posting 000544.txt from 2002/12

From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] HP/LP was Re: [kl] Clarinet Question
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 18:12:15 -0500

This is an interesting idea - my first reaction is that such performances
would get too little exposure to make their cost in the contemporary
entertainment economy worthwhile. After all, there's a huge difference
between this and the "period instrument" movement that has grown up around
performance of pre-twentieth century music: we have *original* recordings of
the jazz of 80 years ago.

I suspect the primary economic drive to produce "classical" music with
original instruments is in recordings - major performing groups these days
seem mostly unable to support themselves on the proceeds from live concerts.
I'm not certain there'd be enough attraction to *new* recordings of 1920's
jazz made with the old instruments when we have plenty of *original*
recorded material, much of it now being digitally cleaned up to closely
approximate modern recording quality, made by the original players.

I think it would be fun to hear such a project in live performance. It may
be that this has been tried, maybe more than any of us knows, and it just
hasn't attracted any attention.

Karl Krelove

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> From: Gary Van Cott [mailto:gary@-----.com]
> Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 3:33 PM
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> Subject: [kl] HP/LP was Re: [kl] Clarinet Question
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> Apropos, of this discussion . . . Is anyone aware of any efforts to use
> vintage instruments (HP or not) to recreate the sound of a
> traditional jazz
> band of 80 years or a concert band (think Sousa) of 100 years ago?
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> I think it would be interesting to hear what the use of vintage
> cornets, Db
> piccolos, Eb horns, etc. would sound like.
>
> Gary
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