Klarinet Archive - Posting 000456.txt from 2003/12

From: Tony@-----.demon.co.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] C Clarinet
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 23:36:19 -0500

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:02:08 -0600, kjohnson64@-----.rr.com said:

> > ...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'....

Hmmm...

A palpable hit, Kathy. The clarinettist was indeed me, and I suppose on that
occasion I was 'outranked', as you put it. Still, some of the orchestra
agreed with me, and it wasn't so much a question of how I played, but rather
of how the whole orchestra played. Still, I'm sorry that I didn't take the
matter further.

Full story at:

http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Logs/2001/04/000569.txt

Tony
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