Klarinet Archive - Posting 000254.txt from 2006/09

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mozart Concerto Question
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:08:04 -0400

Get a copy of the December 2005 Clarinet magazine and read the
article, "A Proposed Change to the Text of Mozart's Clarinet
Concerto," p. 50. The article also addresses several changes that
have now become standard for K. 622 and how that happened,
including the ones you asked about. But that is old news, at
least 20 years old.

I wrote the article and you owe me a beer for telling you about
it. You also owe me a pizza for not knowing about these things.
No clarinet player alive of your quality should not know these
things.

I've change my mind. Your penalty for not knowing about these
things is a dinner at the best French restaurant in Seattle!!

Of course it is an empty threat because I never go to Seattle.

Are you going to play the concerto on an A clarinet or on an A
basset clarinet? Your life depends on the answer? (Nothing like
giving a guy a little insecurity to end the week!!)

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Osborn [mailto:feanor33@-----.net]
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 1:43 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] Mozart Concerto Question

Dear list,

It has been a while since I've performed the Mozart concerto, and
I'm doing
so twice this season (once next week). In the intervening years,
a
practice of changing some pitches has crept in, and I would like
to ask you
if you know the reasons behind it.

The pitches in question are first movement, measure 21, second
beat, second
1/16th note changing it from G# in the violin part to G-natural.
Also in
the clarinet part in measure 109, second beat, second 1/16th
note, changing
it from written F# to F-natural, and the corresponding place in
the recap,
changing from B-natural to B-flat.

My scores, and older recordings reflect the "sharper" versions,
but my
newer recordings all reflect this flat change.

Who made this change? On what are they basing it?

Thanks for your help.

Sean Osborn
www.osbornmusic.com
www.osbornmusic.com

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