Klarinet Archive - Posting 000432.txt from 2005/06

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] OKlahoma Symposium
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:43:25 -0400

What I found particularly astonishing about Morales and his
playing is that he is fully at home in every era of classical
clarinet music. Normally one finds a particularly good player
who specializes in a chosen era, modern, the romantics, etc., but
Morales just plays them all. In a conversation with Jessica ???
of the Met who played 2nd to Morales in the Il Covengno, I asked
her why he had recorded so little, and particularly why he had
not recorded the Mozart concerto. When he played that work in
public, the critics ran out of adjectives. And her reaction was
that he has simply been too busy with other things. Now, it seems
that the conductor of the Philadephia orchestra is planning on a
recording of all the Mozart wind concerti and then we'll have a
chance to listen to his recording of the K. 622. Please don't
tell me that he does not have a basset clarinet in A.

And speaking of that subject, there were a few wackos there who
objected to the use of the basset clarinet in K. 622 under the
assertion that "we have no idea what Mozart." It's a true
statement of course but mindless in its awareness of both Mozart
and the history of the era.

Some other news. David Etheridge told me that he is revising his
book on the Mozart concerto and that Pamela Poulin will write the
material about the historical aspects of the concerto. It was a
brief conversation.

Because I had no one to man my booth (is that gender
insensitive? - perhaps, "people" my booth or "person" my booth
since I was alone) so I could not get to any of the individual
sessions. While the room for sellers was quiet during the hours
when there were no recitals or master classes, it was never
empty. People were always playing in the room and mine had both
the Buffet display and the Wurlitzer reformed boehm display.
Such an instrument!!! It looks as if it were engineered by
Mercedes Benz. Deutsche kunst!!

But the guy who absolutely took the entire event by storm was
Morrie Backun (spelling?) with his array of bells and barrels.
And that wooden bell? I couldn't speak when I first saw it, so
amazed was I at the design and implementation of the work. He's
in Vancouver so the ICA meeting will be there in 2007 and you can
all drool.

Oklahoma has a poor reputation when it comes to scholarly
adventuresomeness, but I found the campus delightful and an
examination of the catalog of course left me with the impression
that one could get a really good education there, but it depends
on the discipline.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Van Cott [mailto:gary@-----.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 1:18 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] OKlahoma Symposium

I won't complain.

I have more CDs on my web site all the time. I finally listed
the Larry
Combs - Eddie Daniels CD Crossing the Line, which had been
sitting here
for too long.

We also have the Ricardo Morales CD French Portraits which is
pretty new also.

Gary

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Did anyone have any recent recordings out? Were any live
recordings made
at the Symposium?
>*I will have to check Gary Van Cott's site, which I have
bookmarked just
>for this purpose! - between you & Gary, once I have all my debt
paid off,
>you guys will be getting about half my paycheck for a while! :D)
>
>Patricia Smith

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