Klarinet Archive - Posting 000492.txt from 2003/04

From: Peter Stoll <peterstoll2000@-----.ca>
Subj: [kl] Stephen Fox C clarinets
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:37:08 -0400

Hello all,

Many many thanks for all the ideas about C clarinets.
It's not that I'm being lazy with keeping up my
sight-transposing, it was recently one Strauss waltz
gig too many with "cut and paste" parts from the score
in tiny tiny size, all 16ths and grace notes, that did
it. I will of course be checking in with Steve, I
wanted to get a sense of the larger market for this
instrument. Lisa at International Music was also very
helpful. It's also a question of price to quality
ratio.

The other thing is the amount of different horns and
kinds of music that you play in a season; I've done
tradtional and contemporary concerti this season, plus
a ton of orchestral stuff, plus new music on all the
clarinets and sax, etc etc etc. So it's a question of
time, and maintaining mental skills like transposing
that one doesn't hear in the sound (a Bb clarinet
playing a Bb part or a mentally-transposed C part is
still playing the same notes) vs. what you do hear:
quality of reeds and chops on a given range of
instruments. But no argument about being prepared for
unexpected music put on the stand. A bass parts also
come to mind!

Thanks again,

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Peter Stoll

University of Toronto
Toronto Philharmonia
Continuum Contemporary Music
ERGO ensemble
Ocean City Pops, NJ

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