Klarinet Archive - Posting 000545.txt from 2003/02

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] orchestra parts for contrabass clarinet
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:26:38 -0500

I've decided that with a rotten remark like that I am not going to
permit you to marry my daughter!!

Heinemann, Stephen wrote:
> Dan Leeson wrote:
>
>
>>I participated in a performance of a contrabassoon concerto by the
>>American composer and French horn player who was then the head of the
>>New England Conservatory, Gunther Schuller. played the contrabass
>>clarinet part.
>>
>>Talk about ugly!! There were extended passages in which the
>>contrabassoon and the contrabass clarinet played duets at their lowest
>>extremity, both completely exposed.
>>
>
> I've heard that and didn't think it sounded "ugly" at all. "Dark," maybe...
>
> Steve Heinemann
> Bradley University

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