Klarinet Archive - Posting 000191.txt from 2007/01

From: Simeon Loring <sloring1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Woodwind Soiree at Juilliard
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:36:31 -0500

One player, Neidich, amazing the audience as he played it both
effortlessly and musically.
Simeon
On Jan 25, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Lelia Loban wrote:

>
> Ken Shaw wrote,
>>> Juilliard presented a wonderful, and free,
>>> Woodwind Soiree last night in the Peter
>>> Jay Sharp Theater.
>
> Thanks for the review! I've been reading the thread about the
> Mendelssohn
> Octet arrangement with particular interest, since my husband plays
> violin
> in the original octet now and then, when he and his chamber music
> friends
> can muster enough people in a large enough living room (not ours!).
> I've
> swiped the first violin part off his music stand a couple of times and
> messed around with it, enviously and not too successfully.
>
> Ken Shaw wrote,
>>> First, Mendelssohn wrote the Octet for a
>>> homogeneous ensemble -- a string symphony,
>>> not a double quartet. The varying woodwind
>>> colors spoiled that character. Also, the voices
>>> are constantly handed off.
>
> That's one of the things I'd wondered about. One of the glories of
> that
> piece is the first violin's spectacular, sustained passage of
> eighth notes
> that begins 43 measures before the end. Did Charles Neidich play that
> alone? (Circular breathing?) I'd hate to hear that passage broken
> up among
> different instruments.
>
> Lelia Loban
>
>
>
>
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