Klarinet Archive - Posting 000450.txt from 2003/12

From: "kathy johnson" <kjohnson64@-----.rr.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] C Clarinet
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 23:02:24 -0500

> ...to which Tony [re-]replied,

> By which I meant: I'd like to see a conductor, or other player, refuse
> *me* the right to play a C clarinet that the composer had specified.

Is there a difference if the conductor orders which instrument to play vs.
how to play it?

This can be a personality issue and a "who outranks whom?" issue; but would
it be any different from the conductor telling a musician to play 'f' when
the passage is clearly marked 'fff'? I remember the example (once posted
here) of a violinist ordering a clarinetist, indirectly via the conductor,
to remain quieter than the violin, even when it was clearly marked for the
entire orchestra to crescendo to 'fff'....

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