Klarinet Archive - Posting 000204.txt from 2007/03

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Berio multiphonic fingerings
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:49:35 -0400

On 14 Mar, bflat <bflat@-----.it> wrote:

> Berio was not so proud of that piece (original version for clar and
> tape, tape destroyed) and that piece is not really a masterpiece.
> Anyway....

I'm interested to hear this. Any evidence?

> 1- you can use a full boehm

Yes, I did that the first couple of times I played it;

> 2- i've seen an american clar player whose name i do not remember now
> adding and putting away a tube after the bell to increase the clarinet
> length (not really easy) but it worked.

Yes, I've done that too, in Berio's presence -- see later.

> 3- alternative positions? same but using E position instead of Eb. Sorry
> to say but i knew Berio and he really didn't care so much of that piece and
> of this problem. he only knew that in 1979 most clarinet players used in
> Italy full boehm and used the Eb key. that's it.

But, not really true. Berio was of a generation that used the full Boehm,
but that hasn't been true of the younger players, even in 1979.

I once told Berio that we had a great problem with classical texts in Italy,
because many of them were edited by Giampieri, who mangled them and then
insisted that he, Giampieri, was acknowledged at any performance (for
example, of the Mozart Concerto) that used the Ricordi edition.

Berio said, "But....he was my professor!!!"

Anyway, my story about the Sequenza is at:

http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Klarinet/2000/01/000392.txt

The offer of what we produced is still open. (Perhaps I should make it
available on the website -- Mark?)

Tony
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