Klarinet Archive - Posting 000543.txt from 2003/08

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Articulation in the Weber Concertino
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:57:35 -0400

It's great, isn't it, to discover that just about any articulation decision=
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you make about a piece can be defended as well as any other (assuming of=20
course that your critic doesn't claim to talk with God or the departed=20
composer every morning).

I had no idea that von Weber's autographs of the concertos (and I presume=20
the Concertino) do not show articulation markings. More power to both of=
you!

The Bret=F3n sextet had an articulation "deficit" and as I recall the=20
autographs of the Krommer partitas were lacking articulation markings all=20
over the place.

Oliver

At 03:58 PM 8/21/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Anne Lenoir wrote:
>>I decided to play Concertino with practically no articulation, and it was=
=20
>>a lot easier for
>>me...Yesterday I was browsing through Volume 30, Number 1 of "The
>>Clarinet" from December, 2002. I noticed an article on pp. 50-61 "Carl
>>Maria von Weber's Clarinet Concertos" by Frank Heidlberger...Heidlberger=
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>>had some copies of segments of the original
>>scores on p.60. He mentions the fact that the original scores were
>>marked without articulation, and goes on to talk about Weber's
>>friendship with Baermann, and showing the later articulations that were
>>created by Baermann. I thought to myself, "I really think that it is
>>o.k. for a person to customize their own articulations when playing
>>works of Weber." ...after I finished the performance, I did get quite a=
long
>>round of applause and had to stand up 3 times in the band shell. This
>>doesn't usually happen during our concerts... The audition was for=20
>>subbing for the first clarinetist, who
>>will be missing a few concerts this year. The conductor loved my
>>clarinet playing and told me that they would be using me this season.

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