Klarinet Archive - Posting 000421.txt from 2004/05

From: "Patricia A. Smith" <arlyss1@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Long dead composers and OTHER musical mysteries!; was, Rosen on text
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 12:46:18 -0400

Dan Leeson wrote:

>A fast road to hell occurs whenever one makes a presumption about
>what Mahler (or anyone else) wanted or didn't want. Even he did
>not know half the time what he wanted, so how can we at this
>distance make presumptions about it.
>
>One can do nothing but get in trouble by such speculation.
>
>
Dagnabbit, why do these people all have to be dead, and unable to answer
these and other important performance questions!

Seriously, Dan, any recent news concerning your Mozart mystery? I never
buy books anymore - can't afford it, but I'm gonna bite the bullet & buy
yours!

I've been dropping in and out and in again on the list (in between
yelling at my own kids and "herding cats" - read substitute teaching -
at the local middle schools), hoping to see that this book is finally
out! I am an addict to mysteries, looking for a FIX! And one that
involves either clarinets or bassett horns, and Mozart, well, then, I
might even be inspired to lock my kids out of the house when my clarinet
arrives home and practice addictively as well!

At any rate, this topic made me think about this sort of thing, and I'm
not only curious about the "whodunnit" aspect of this mystery, but also
about your characters:
I'm very curious as to whether you have any characters who have an
aspect of their personality in which they wish to speculate on the
Mozart mystery in your book as has been done in this thread and many
others here on the list, without benefit of "hard" evidence, etc. and
I'm interested in how you've dealt, fictionally, with them! I'm also
wondering what other sorts of characters you've created, and how closely
they perhaps fit to any sort of real personality quirks we come upon
either online, or face to face, either in the clarinet world, or elsewhere.

I know, this is veering on the off-topic; but I really do want to read
this book. I apologize if I'm rehashing old stuff here...

Patricia Smith

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