Klarinet Archive - Posting 000208.txt from 2003/02

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Castelnuovo-Tedesco Question
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 16:25:10 -0500

On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 11:30:20 -0700 (MST), stmoore@-----.edu said:

> Not only is it printed in other locations as a C#, but it causes
> dissonance with the piano and breaks the minor 3rd interval that all
> of those other similar patterns have. It just sounds raunchy.
>
> I'm not really sure what to do.. Since I'm playing for the ICA Young
> Artist Competition, do I play the way at least one of the judges
> expects to hear it (that just doesn't seem to sound right) or do I
> play it with the C# that just seems much more correct to me.. Quite a
> dilemma.

In a competition, no one can *expect* you to do anything other than what
is printed. Since in this case that means you doing what you want to
do, there is no dilemma. (And anyway, competitions aren't won or lost
on such things.)

I'd certainly need a bit more evidence than we've been given here so far
before changing it myself. After all, supposing you were asked why
you'd changed it? "Er well, this guy on the internet, see, he told me
to...well, he said some other guy said that it was in the composer's
manuscript. No, I don't know why it isn't printed that way.....no, I
didn't see it myself.....I didn't get in touch with the other guy, but
he's quite famous!"

:-(

Shades of the Poulenc sonata.

Tony
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