Klarinet Archive - Posting 000281.txt from 2004/01

From: "David Glenn" <maestrodavidglenn@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] American move to the Boehm system
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 11:46:16 -0500

After reading wrong information from David B. and Dan's questions, I would like to correct it: Michele was already principle clarinet in LA when she changed. I don't know whether Zubin Mehta encouraged it or not. But she told me that she played the German mouthpiece in the orchestra the day after she first tried it. Then she switched to Oehler clarinets. Just for the record.
-David
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DATE: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 05:09:18
From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
To: klarinet@-----.org
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>Musician wrote:
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>> Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
>> Subject: Re: [kl] American move to the Boehm system
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>> But here, the opinion of an indiviual who went from one system to the
>> other and can contrast them in more meaningful ways eliminates a great
>> deal of bias. Now what I would like to hear is someone who went from a
>> Boehm system to an Oehler system. Did not the prinipal player in the
>> LA
>> Phil do that?
>>
>> Dan
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>> Yes, Michele Zukovsky does play the Oehler system. She changed over a
>> long time ago, got the LA job with it and considers the system to be
>> "good luck" for her.
>>
>> Does she encourage her students to do it? No, not that I am aware of
>> (I didn't study with her, I work w/her online music).
>>
>> btw:
>> She never took a lesson on the system from someone who played it
>> either! Studied for years and years with her dad Kalman Bloch.
>>
>> David Blumberg
>> http://artists.primetones.com/michele_zukovsky
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>David, I knew her father who was the clarinetist with the LA Phil before
>Michelle later assumed the position. He was a student of Bellison and
>also was part of Bellison's clarinet orchestra which goes back to the
>1930s. If I am correct, he is still alive.
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>I presume that Michelle's father was not responsible for her interest in
>the Oehler system. He was strictly a Boehm player and would have had no
>reason to influence his daughter towards the selection of a new clarinet
>system.
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>Also, unless my information is inocrrect, Michelle's switch to Oehler
>was in mid-career and while she was already principal with LA and
>playing Boehm for a number of years. I'm also informed that the switch
>was initiated as a result of a suggestion from Zubin Mehta. Michele's
>husband is also a clarinetist though he plays a Boehm system.
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>My only interest in bringing her up was because there was an interesting
>posting about an individual who switched from Oehler to Boehm and I waa
>curious to understand the motivation behind someone who did exactly the
>opposite.
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>Dan Leeson
>leeson0@-----.net
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