Klarinet Archive - Posting 000450.txt from 2003/01

From: "Lorne G. Buick" <lgbuick@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] book on Mozart's clarinet concerto
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:24:50 -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"!

How long ago were you here? Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949, and
there is still a substantial contingent that think it was a bad idea,
and that we should secede now... I don't think they'll ever get their
way.

>
>I wish you could divert one of those blizzards to us. We haven't
>seen any snow since before Christmas,
[snip]
>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!

We'd be happy to share, I assure you. Watching the snow it's a wonder
any of it ever hits the ground. Same with rain - I can remember in
the house we rented when we first moved here, sitting at a
third-floor window, watching the wind blow rain up-hill up the
street, then pick it up and hurl it at the window... It's also one
reason there aren't more problems with the flat roofs here- very
little snow actually accumulates on most of them.
>
>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?

Yes, there's a fairly thorough discussion of that, starting with the
199 bars of surviving manuscript.

Guess I should go start the first round of shovelling...
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Lorne G Buick Principal Clarinet, Newfoundland Symphony
lgbuick@-----. John's, Newfoundland

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