Klarinet Archive - Posting 000159.txt from 2004/10

From: Adam Michlin <amichlin@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mahler
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 08:22:40 -0400

Sabine Meyer has undoubtedly performed the Mozart Clarinet Concerto many
more times than Dan Leeson.

Woe be her to claim Mozart intended the piece to have a cadenza. I would be
right behind Dan with my pitchfork irregardless of the quantity of times
she has performed and recorded the piece. I'm not a violent man, quite
honestly, but some things require drastic measures.

I should add I have no knowledge of her making any such claims. Calm down,
people!

Email is an imperfect medium. I don't think Dan meant any disrespect. I do
believe he's had much too much experience with people making arbitrary
choices and justifying those choices with little or no factual research
(and he is the master of us all when it comes to factual research). So this
was, perhaps, a knee jerk reaction for him. I just don't think the
pitchfork really came out.

-Adam

At 09:55 PM 10/6/2004 +1000, Gavin Rebetzke wrote:
>Hang on! With the very greatest of respect, in his original post, the
>inquisitor correctly used a question mark, thus indicating that he was
>asking a question, albeit obviously tinged with a sense of levity. As
>for the comment which is reproduced below, such bullying arrogance is
>quite unbecoming and, dare I say, reckless. It seems to me that it was
>clearly indicated that the inquisitor is indeed currently playing the
>3rd clarinet part in Mahler 5, and was searching for some better
>understanding of an aspect that he found confounding. If you found the
>question, or the fact that he was playing the work in an amateur
>orchestra contemptible, then you could always have ignored the post. Of
>course, as I have only played the relevant part once myself, and I only
>play in an amateur orchestra, I probably don't really have any right to
>make even this comment. --Gavin Rebetzke

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