Klarinet Archive - Posting 000256.txt from 2005/06

From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Hindemith Concerto
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:15:34 -0400

OK, my frustration has overcome my pride. I pulled out the Hindemith
Concerto tonight just for something to do. I HATE admitting to passages
I simply can't play, but the one from 55 to 70 in the second movement of
this concerto defies me each time I come to the piece. These appear to
be synthetic scales of some sort, each one similar enough to the other
that I can find no logic in them to use as a memory aid, and so I find
myself every time I come back to the passage reading note-by-note. I can
play it cleanly but always inconsistently at nearly whatever tempo I
pick (slow, fast or in between) and whatever comfort level I reach is
completely gone the next time I come to the passage (whether it's the
next day or longer). It may well be that I just haven't practiced these
14 measures enough hours in my lifetime to have earned the right to toss
them off more easily, but they're the only 14 bars in the piece that
really throw me in this way, and the practice I *have* put into it seems
completely wasted in a way I find unique.

The frustrating thing is it doesn't look hard and, taken one scale at a
time, it isn't. It's the 5 scales in succession that seem problematic.
Is there a structural hook I've missed to "hang my hat on" that could
make it easier? Or are those of you who *can* play it puzzled that I'm
having so much trouble with it?

Thanks for anything useful.

Karl Krelove

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