Klarinet Archive - Posting 000063.txt from 2004/09

From: CBA <clarinet10001@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] A bass clarinet
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 07:29:46 -0400

I would think since Ralph McLane was mentioned almost directly
before inclusion of "RM," that he meant Ralph McLane and not
Rosario Mazzeo.

Kelly Abraham
Woodwinds - Computer Geek
Hattiesburg, MS
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--- dnleeson <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:

> Could you run this note by me again? Are you saying that
> Wright
> owned an A bass clarinet which he played in La Valse with the
> BSO? And which instrument are you referring to as having been
> bought from RM? Also, can I presume that RM means Rosario
> Mazzeo?
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> Dan Leeson
> DNLeeson@-----.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larisa Duffy and David Dow
> [mailto:duffyl@-----.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 6:25 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] A bass clarinet
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> Back in the mid 80s when I was studying with Harold Wright he
> refered to La
> Valse as being one of the finest bass clarinet parts written.
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> At that time he was rehearsing it with the Boston Symphony
> orchestra...
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> In regards to the part(in La Valse) he said
> "The tone of an A bass would be something ealse...if it is
> anything like my
> A Soprano clarinet."...or something to that effect..
> Mr. Wright was of course referring to his Ralph McLane Buffet
> which he
> bought from RM>.
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> As to the whereabouts of this particular instrument I wonder
> if
> any one out
> there knows? Many friends of mine who studied with Wright are
> also
> wondering this as well.
>
> David Dow
> Symphony NB
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> If you can play it well forwards...then practice it
> backwards...
>

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