Klarinet Archive - Posting 000759.txt from 2003/06

From: "LARISA DUFFY & DAVID DOW" <DUFFYL@-----.CA>
Subj: Re: [kl] Cohler's vibrato article
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 00:13:20 -0400

I have always been the type of player/teacher who asks these same questions.
In orchestra I can generally say about 90 percent of the time I no longer
use vibrato. I just don't. As for reasons I find it doesn't add much to
the tone or thedynamics so I never throw it on top of the sound so to speak.

Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is a fine example where vibrato can be done to
great effect. Here is where we really want something raunchy to
happen...the danger is of course overdoing it...and then it can be vulgar.
I have great respect for players like Shifrin who seem to be able to switch
on and off vibrato. Lately, and by this the last five years, I have stopped
pretty much using vibrato.

There are also spots in-Dvorak's 8th Symphony in the slow movement clarinet
duet which I have heard done very nicely with vibrato. The record was
Vaclav Neuman's on Suprahpon and had great clarinets with a very different
vibrato.

Our orchestra recently performed Beethoven's 3rd, and the geust conductor
asked me if I played with vibrato ever. I said, "Generally not because I
find I blend better without it."

So there's one reply....I think vibrato definitely works well in jazz.
Sometimes not so well in the Classics.

David Dow
Symphony New Brunswick

Again if I --- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Pay" <Tony@-----.uk>
Subject: Re: [kl] Cohler's vibrato article

> On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 12:11:58 -0400, GrabnerWG@-----.com said:
>
> > As a debate, we should talk about when and in what circumstances is
> > vibrato appropriate, not whether or not to ever use it.
>
> There was a good moment once in a Bruggen rehearsal. He stopped, and
> said to the first flute, in his slow way, "Lisa,......dark....plus
> vibrato......equals.....bright."
>
> There was a short pause; then she nodded, and we played the passage
> again. It worked much better, everyone agreed.
>
> Lisa's thought process was: he's asking me about the function of what
> I'm playing here. I'm using vibrato, which makes what I do brighter.
> How does that fit with everything else? Would it be better darker?
>
> Let's try.
>
> Tony
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