Klarinet Archive - Posting 000330.txt from 2003/12

From: Tony@-----.demon.co.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] A little pat on the back for me from me to me and by me
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 20:11:03 -0500

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 09:13:13 -0800, leeson0@-----.net said:

> But what would happen when they came to the 5th movement and m. 111
> (about which Tony Pay and I have had an infinite number of fascinating
> discussions). Would they include it (as I suspect is Tony's current
> thinking, though he is liberal on the matter), or would they exclude it
> (which is what I believe Mozart explicitly requested in the manuscript
> though in an ambiguous way)?

The last time I directed it, in Finland earlier this year, we omitted the
measure, Dan. (I hope you're pleased:-)

> The only criticism I can launch at the playing (except for one final
> bassoon solo in the last movement) is that the players would not depart
> from the text.

I know that you don't mean what you might be taken to mean here, Dan,
but....:-)

> As legacies go, it isn't much, but a lot of people leave a lot less as
> they move on to the great chamber music hall in the sky. I had an uncle
> who left a button collection. Feh!! Take out a measure of Mozart's music
> in an important composition and have it being performed that way around the
> world? Now that's better than my uncle's button collection.

Yeah. I agree. Cheers!

Tony
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... So... What've you been doing then?

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