Klarinet Archive - Posting 000026.txt from 2006/05

From: HILARY NICHOLLS <hilarynicholls@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Pamela Weston
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 00:57:07 -0400

Pamela Weston is well known as a clarinet teacher and
arranger of teaching materials in the UK. PUt out by
our Associated Board and other UK publishers
As teaching materials they are generally OK if
uninspired
I don't think she was ever prominent as a concert
artist

--- Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net> wrote:

> Having seen the remark that she isn't a player twice
> now in the same week, I
> tried Googling Pamela Weston and found bios of an
> artist (a British painter
> and, apparently in the past, architect) and a few
> entries citing the books
> about clarinetists that we discuss here. I had
> always assumed (admitting my
> ignorance boldly) she was an English clarinetist,
> and the websites that
> review or sell her books certainly try to bolster
> that impression, but I
> don't, now that I think about it, own any recordings
> she's made.
>
> I looked at a couple of major CD distributors'
> websites and they don't show
> any of her recordings either, although Barnes &
> Noble showed me several made
> by Thea King, Colin Bradbury and a couple of other
> players, listing them
> (inexplicably to me, unless someone can explain it)
> as "titles where the
> Artist is Pamela Weston."
>
> Who exactly is Pamela Weston and what does she do
> when she isn't writing
> about clarinetists or editing clarinet literature?
> And why is Barnes & Noble
> listing other clarinetists' recordings as somehow
> connected with her. Is she
> an A&R person for one of the major record companies
> or a writer of liner
> notes?
>
> Karl
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tony.pay@-----.com
> [mailto:tony.pay@-----.com] On
> >
> > But, who cares what she thinks? She writes good
> books about
> > clarinet players, but....she's not a player, she
> understands
> > very little of the style....
> >
>
>
>
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