Klarinet Archive - Posting 000042.txt from 2005/11

From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: A very unusual performance of Mozart's K. 297b
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 20:39:50 -0500

I think this is also what has relegated Gary Grafman to one-hand
repertoire for many years. I also know two clarinetists who have had to
stop playing because of it. One of these players told me that one
explanation is that it's at least partly a type of repetitive stress
injury. Made me wonder if the people who develop it just practice too
much (well, avoiding it makes a good excuse for those of us who don't
practice enough).

Karl Krelove

Tim Roberts wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 09:39:10 -0800, "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
> wrote:
>
>> ... The oboe player Alex Klein was, at 30, one of the most brilliant
>> oboeists of his generation. Then he got the first chair position
>> with the Chicago symphony. Within two years he bagan developing a
>> neurological problem in his hand, and by the end of the 2003
>> season, he was forced to leave the orchestra.
>>
>> Today, in Carnegie Hall with the Chicagoans, he will rejoin them
>> for the performance of the concertante.
>>
>
>
> It's interesting you would mention that. Just today, our local
> classical music station was playing tracks from a CD by Leon Fleisher
> entitled "Two Hands". Leon Fleisher was a concert pianist who had
> exactly the same situation as Mr. Klein. Focal dystonia caused him to
> lose the use of his right hand and give up the piano in 1965.
> Treatment with botox was so effective that he has now been able to
> resume his performance and recording career, some 40 years later.
> "Two Hands" represents his first CD since regaining the use of his
> right hand.
>

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