Klarinet Archive - Posting 000887.txt from 2004/01

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Need suggestions - clarinet and string orchestra
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:29:56 -0500

Steve White wrote:

> Dan,
>
> You make valid points. I will admit that there are typically two types of
> clarinetist - those that like and those that dislike Weber's music. When I
> did the Weber Quintet, it was a noticeably lighter piece than the two it
> followed. I started with the Bernstein Sonata and then went to Brahms No.
> 2. After a much needed intermission I left the audience with a lighter fare
> for the ride home. I must admit that I couldn't, at the time in Flagstaff,
> AZ get the Mozart Quintet parts - and I had no access to an 'A' clarinet
> (such things have been solved nowadays) and I wanted to play with a string
> quartet while I had the chance.
> I respect your opinion. I should say that it is far more fun to play the
> piece than it is to listen to it. Perhaps I display my lack of maturity by
> admitting that I had a good time learning, rehearsing and performing the
> number, perhaps not. I must say that my instructor supported me and had
> many helpful suggestions for both me and the quartet. It was a grand
> learning experience for someone who had only played in Bands and had limited
> exposure to strings in general. I continue to work on the Mozart in the
> hopes of performing it sometime in the next year or two.
>
> Well, there's some more ammunition for you...
>
> Steve White
>
Who was your teacher in Flagstaff. I am driving through there in two
weeks en route to Santa Fe and will stop and ask if he ever intends to
let an impressionable student play that piece again. If he says yes,
then I will put my basset horn up his nose, bell end first.

I will grant you this: considering the Bernstein followed by Brahms 2,
you did need something light to finish up your program. But light
doesn't mean vacuous, brain dead, and without well chosen musical ideas.

Dan
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