Klarinet Archive - Posting 000283.txt from 2006/09

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Quintet of the Americas in Concert on October 1 at Community Church of Douglaston, Queens, New York
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:04:43 -0400

Well one way is to play the four notes of the turn as a note
followed by a triplet. And another, which is more difficult, but
very much my favorite, is to play the first note and hang onto it
as long as you can. Then before the beat comes to complete the
turn with a rhythm that connects directly to the written out
notes that follow. A third way is to play the turn as four even
notes. And given a few minutes I can probably come up with
another half dozen ways. None are wrong. There is no single
right way to play turns (though there may be exceptions to that
statement that I cannot think of now). If you can get the
recording of Serkin with the Philadelphia quartet (recorded many
years ago), that will give you a perspective of that turn that
you will not find anywhere else. Of course, all the players that
have the turn should do it the one agree-upon way. I think that
there would be a stylisitic problem if each of the players in
their own turn did it differently from all the others.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Foss [mailto:billfoss47@-----.net]
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 12:45 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Quintet of the Americas in Concert on October 1
at
Community Church of Douglaston, Queens, New York

DAN - Elucidate me. I have played K452 numerous times and have
NEVER run
into any argument over the slow movement turn. What are the
various ways of
playing it of which you speak ? Up to this point I was under the
impression
that there was only one way.

Bill Foss
US Army Retired
USC Aiken, Clarinet Professor
Director of Bands, Aiken Prep

----- Original Message -----
From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 1:42 PM
Subject: RE: [kl] Quintet of the Americas in Concert on October 1
at
Community Church of Douglaston, Queens, New York

>I wish you a good audience and a wonderful performance of K452.
> I don't remember ever playing a performance of that without
> substantial argument in the rehearsals about how a certain turn
> in the slow movement is supposed to be done. Every player is of
> the opinion on how to execute it, and no two interpretations
> agree. That could be considered a distinctily positive way to
> look at things. Should there be only one interpretation of
that
> turn? And if you have every played the work, you know which
slow
> movement to which I am referring.
>
> Dan Leeson
> DNLeeson@-----.net
>
> This concert, presented by the Douglaston Concerts First Sunday
> Series,
> will feature the Quintet of the Americas performing W.A. Mozart
’s
> Quintet for Piano and Winds, K. 452.
>
>
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