Klarinet Archive - Posting 000277.txt from 2003/12

From: mginesi@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Bounced mail -swan
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:50:41 -0500

hi,
i am new to this list so i may or may not be correct in how i am responding...

in deference to ken, whose hair and beard are whiter [and longer] than mine...

the actual full name of the piece is Le Cygne, [the swan] from Camille Saint-
Saens "carnaval des Animaux" - a piece for orchestra and 2 pianos written in
1886. this, the best known piece, was a cello solo within the work.

the vandoren page uses an alto sax at about 135% the intended tempo [adagio]
a better choice would have been the tenor sax to reflect the tonal range of
the cello...but...to each their own, n'est ce pas?

while i am here with this tid-bit, i will introduce myself....
michael ginesi...a musician [clarinet,saxophone, flute,+others...sometimes i
even get paid!], a repair technician, an instrument and mouthpiece restorer
[or as some might - refinisher...but, to me, to much like someone who re-
does floors on 'this old house']. infinately more succinct to describe the
process as a re-realization of the original intention...[please... don't ask
me to add epoxy to the table of your vintage mp...buy new and go from there]
original kaspers were created for a reason...as times change and instruments
change [people likewise, nicht vahr!] perceptions of what sound needs to
be....will change as well...

my interests in clarinet; i am a life long learner...hoping each day to find
more - to share what i might, and to help individuals in their own search for
the 'perfect instrument'. i have played the same buffet r-13 since 1964 [it
has been re-padded a few times] and i don't intend to switch any time
soon...but i do find pleasure in selmers, leblancs, and a few other
trademarks of not so great a significance..

i will try to be as helpful as is my ability...

michael
> Karin Berman wrote:
> > Hi Gary
> > I got your mail too, and also only signed on a few days ago.
> > Since I am at it now, see if anyone can help me with this unusual request. I
> > was surfing the net re clarinets and somehow got to the Vandoren web page.
> > As I opened this page, the most beautiful and very familiar piece of music
> > started to play. I know this piece very well, but cannot place it at all.
>
> I just got it. I think it's something called "The Dying Swan." The
> music is Camille Saint-Saens. It's an accompaniment for a ballerina set
> piece that used to be performed by any number of top female dancers, I
> believe beginning with Anna Pavlova early in the 20th century, maybe
> before. The last I remember is Maya Plisetskaya of the Bolshoi, but the
> tradition appears to have gone on. The solo instrument is either a
> soprano sax or a clarinet. Really hard to tell sometimes! But you're
> right, it's absolutely exquisite.
>
> Why am I a sucker for French music?:-)
>

> > Anyone out there who can relieve my distress???
> > Karin B (a "mature" clarinet STUDENT. One is never too old to learn )
>
> Hope I helped. Like you I'm an adult (ha!) private student, and yes,
> it's a weird experience. I feel like the guy in that Moliere play who's
> shocked to find out he's been speaking prose all his life and didn't
> know it.
>
> Ken
> --
> Kenneth Wolman
> Proposal Development Department
> Room SW334
> Sarnoff Corporation
> 609-734-2538
>
>
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