Klarinet Archive - Posting 000133.txt from 2006/08

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] clar pricing
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 18:23:04 -0400

On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:39:17 +0000, Sarah Elbaz "
<sarah@-----.com> wrote:

>
>
>>> -------Original Message-------
>>> From: dnleeson <dnleeson@-----.net>
>>> Subject: RE: [kl] clar pricing
>>> Sent: 05 Aug '06 16:32
>>>
>>> Probably was me. But that is not the issue at hand. I was
>>> simply trying to show that one does not need two or even three
>>> clarinets. I wouldn't do it, but the party involved was
>>> complaining about costs of having to own multiple clarinets. So
>>> I said some thing, "you don't really need several instruments if
>>
>>> you are a good transposer." Read my note in that context.
>>
>Dan, you proved again that you are very good with theory but not really familiar with the practical side of clarinet playing.
>
>

Oh, come on, Sarah. You are missing the point here (perhaps
intentionally). Anyone who has read Dan's writings knows that he is Joe
Number One on the list of crusaders against arbitrary transposing. His
point is not that it is desirable or common -- his point is that it is
not impossible.

>We need two clarinets even when we transpose very well. When was the last time that you heard a clarinetist play Mozart concerto on stage with a Bb?? probably never.
>

If I were to play the Mozart concerto with my community band, I would do
it on my Bb clarinet. Now, it just so happens that the band
transcription of the concerto has the BAND transposed up a half step, so
that it is still in written C for the soloist, so the situation is not
really parallel.

>We need two clarinets because when we play music we want to walk in the main road and not in the dark alleys of the clarinet.
>

I dare say there are many parts of the world that DO exist in the "dark
alleys of the clarinet", where owning two clarinets would be an
unbelievably opulent luxury. I have no trouble imagining a third-world
clarinetist performing the concerto on his Bb clarinet in 5 sharps,
because without doing so he would simply never have the opportunity to
perform it.

--
Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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