Klarinet Archive - Posting 000262.txt from 2005/04

From: "Margaret Thornhill" <clarinetstudio@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] nationalities (was test results)
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:09:52 -0400

Tony wrote:
>I suspect that quite a few of the older people here have, like me,
>prototypical
'French', 'German' and 'English' clarinet sounds in their minds, drawn
probably
from old recordings or performances by people like Delecluse, Cahuzac,
Geuser,
Wlach (Viennese), Draper, Thurston and then Brymer, Walton and de Peyer.
Those
people would be unable to tell the nationality of the player of a recent
recording, but they might want to say paradoxically of someone like Paul
Meyer,
well, he's French, but he doesn't *sound* French.

Because I find I want to say that myself, I think these categories have some
independent reality, though to continue to attach them to nationalities is
probably counterproductive.>

thanks Tony--this is an interesting post, and I've noted the books about
perception for further reading.

I'm not old enough to remember performances by most of the people on your
list above, but thirty years ago it seemed to me that people in the states
would cast up really tonally distinctly different national examples like
Lancelot, French; Karl Lester, German; Brymer, English.
I wonder if the current situation with tonal characteristics isn't just the
result of globalization, like everything else?

Margaret

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