Klarinet Archive - Posting 000153.txt from 2003/05

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Richard Stolzman's recital
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 14:07:23 -0400

Still, I used his name in vain the other day. This evening I'll be playing
both the Brahms and Mozart quintets with a string quartet in Palos
Verdes. In one sitting, if you can believe it! The violist got my foot in
the door. During the last couple of weeks I've been telling her that I was
getting my tempo up on the 2nd and 3rd movements of the Brahms and that I
ought to be close to acceptable by this evening.

She finally wrote back with a disclaimer that "we aren't the Juillard
String Quartet, Oliver, so don't be disappointed." I responded not to
worry, that "I'm not Richard Stoltzman, either, so we all ought to have a
splendid time."

It's ironic that I got into computer synthesized accompaniment because
there were pieces in the the clarinet music literature that I would never
get to play if I didn't, partly because it is so very difficult to get any
group of live players together for anything, but by doing so opportunities
have begun to open up in the most unexpected ways.

Brahms and Mozart in one evening! It's hard to believe, isn't it!? Maybe
I'll slip the Meyerbeer just for fun!

Oliver

At 06:24 AM 5/7/03 -0400, Bill wrote, in part:
>It is interesting. I am not consistently a fan of Stolzman's.

>William T. Semple

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