Klarinet Archive - Posting 000449.txt from 2003/01

From: "Joseph H. Fasel" <jhf@-----.gov>
Subj: Re: [kl] book on Mozart's clarinet concerto
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 12:11:04 -0500

Ah, St. John's, a charming city! I remember fondly my trips to the
city while, as a student, I was working at the US Naval Station
Argentia (about 90 miles west). An impression that stuck with me
was the fiercely independent Newfie spirit: A Newfoundlander who
worked on the base told me once that he was taking his family on
holiday, "to Canada"!

I wish you could divert one of those blizzards to us. We haven't
seen any snow since before Christmas, so it looks like we're headed
for another year with far-below-normal snowpack and consequent
elevated risk of forest fires this summer. On the other hand,
I recall how it not only snowed a lot in Newfoundland, but it tended
to snow sideways: I looked out my tenth-floor window one morning
to see a snowdrift over the fourth floor! Then there was the time
I was snowed in at work for a couple of days, feasting on C-rations
that I suspect were WWII surplus. Maybe the sunny southwest isn't
so bad.

To return to the topic again briefly, this sounds like a book I'll
have to get. Does it go much into divining Mozart's use of the
basset notes?

Cheers,
--Joe

On 2003.01.24 09:11 Lorne G. Buick wrote:
> Just for the sake of adding something clarinet-related, I have read
> (and own) Colin Lawson's book, and consider it essential reading for
> any clarinetist, even if you're never going to play the Concerto.
>
> Meanwhile I'm stuck at home with no students, due to our third
> blizzard in seven days...

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> Lorne G Buick Principal Clarinet, Newfoundland Symphony
> lgbuick@-----. John's, Newfoundland

Joseph H. Fasel, Ph.D. email: jhf@-----.gov
Decision Modeling and Analysis phone: +1 505 667 7158
University of California fax: +1 505 667 2960
Los Alamos National Laboratory post: D-7 MS F609; Los Alamos, NM 87545

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