Klarinet Archive - Posting 000614.txt from 2003/06

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Vibrato on the Clarinet
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 07:38:33 -0400

I think you have made the same error I made - read - very very carefully
- what was said. Vibrato is not mentioned........

Matthew

-----Original Message-----
From: ferengiz=E2de dani=EAl shawqy [mailto:rab@-----.de]=20
Subject: Re: [kl] Vibrato on the Clarinet

No!
Clarinet and vibrato! How could a civilized Conductor tolerate such a
gross
abuse of the noblest of all wind instruments? I think in Germany you'd
get
lynched if you'd dare to try even the most subtle vibrato.
Yet,
the great Muehlfeld (for whom Brahms wrote his late parts) was reported
to
have played with more vibrato than the cellist of the Joachim
quartet....

Seriously, I think we are missing something, historically speaking. Over
here it would be totally unthinkable to use vibrato (at least in
Austro/German chamber music) and I must say that it DOES sound FAR
better
than the less restrictive performance practice... maybe one day we'll
have
to acknowledge that the modern Austrogerman Clarinet and it's playing
tradition is in fact a different instrument and should be given a
different
name or rather the French/Italian instrument should be called "claroe",
"clarott", "claroon" "clareek" or something like that...
BTW, may I ask how US players handle the problem of playing an
instrument
that is either French or German in tradition (i.e. evil in any case) --
Did
you have to rename it "freedom horn" or did someone come up with a new
"redneck"-system?
Regards,
danyel

----- Original Message -----
From: Deidre Calarco
Subject: Re: [kl] Vibrato on the Clarinet

On 6/18/03 1:48 PM, "Jimmy Lee" <jrlaudio@-----.net> wrote:

> a conductor that does not want clarinets to use vibrator is a
> loser

ROFL

I agree. It's none of the conductor's business if the clarinetists like
to
use vibrators. That's personal!

(back to lurking)

-Deidre

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