Klarinet Archive - Posting 000135.txt from 2006/08

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: FW: [kl] clar pricing
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 18:44:02 -0400

Tim, thank you for your comments. Sarah and I had a brief private
conversation about her comments. I think she is now well aware of
her unfortuante lapse of judgement.
Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Roberts [mailto:timr@-----.com]
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 3:22 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] clar pricing

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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