Klarinet Archive - Posting 000484.txt from 2006/03

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Transposed Parts
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:02:57 -0500

I never mentioned it to Drucker. And I did not ask her for any =
clarifications. I suspect that she said to him that she had a player =
who "couldn't" or "wouldn't" transpose and he may have misinterpreted =
the comment as a troublesome player. But it would not suprise me if he =
simply had no tolerance for a C clarinet.

Dan Leeson =20
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Wakeling [mailto:joseph.wakeling@-----.net]
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 2:59 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Transposed Parts

dnleeson wrote:
> Indeed. But the circumstances were more complicated. I played a C on
> the Beethoven Missa Solemnis, and the conductor (a woman well in her
> late 70s if not her 80s) asked me why I had three clarinets when the
> other player had two. When I told her I was playing on a C she later
> asked Stanley Drucker about it and he told her to fire me. When she
> said she was going to, I told her that I'd play the part on any
> instrument she wished, and that seemed to mollify her. Strange woman.

Out of curiosity, did you ever get to speak to Stanley Drucker and ask
him about it?

I remember you telling that story and I had the
impression---speculation, of course---that when she called him she
probably spun it to him along the lines of not transposing, rather than
using the C clarinet. I can't imagine that a player like Drucker would
object to using the C where it is called for in the score.

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