Klarinet Archive - Posting 000042.txt from 2004/05

From: "Film & Music Promotion Management" <FilmPromotion@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] re: Depeyer
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 09:15:12 -0400

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DePeyer's recordings with the Melos Ensemble opened my eyes as a young
American player to the possibility that 1.) there was more than one
sound
("the one true sound") that could be gotten from a clarinet in playing
classical music, and 2.) that blend and balance with string and other
wind players was musically desirable and possible, if one was willing
to
be flexible about one's sound. For me it was a valuable lesson at an
impressionable age.

I heard DePeyer play several times at the Denver Clarinet Festival,
and
it was always musically instructive. Taking his career as a whole, to
the
extent that I know it, I have nothing but respect for him, as a
musician
and a clarinetist.

David

David Niethamer

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I never liked any of his recordings. I think what did it for me was on
a train to NYC back in 1989 when I was going to Neidich for lessons, I
sat next to and had a very long conversation with the Director of Fund
Raising for Lincoln Center. She ripped into him big time about what a
complete ego maniac he was and how hard he was to work with. So to
combine a huge ego with playing like that, I completely lost respect
for him.

David B.
http://artists.primetones.com/blummy

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