Klarinet Archive - Posting 000143.txt from 2007/04

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] A performance from my Web site!
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:07:04 -0400

As some of you know, I've been haunting on-line music library
catalogues for the past twelve years or so to find clarinet music
which I can play along with computer accompaniment. I keep looking
for live players with whom to play and I spend long hours sitting by
my telephone waiting for it to ring ("don't call us, Oliver, we'll
call you", and, "maybe, just maybe, someday, Oliver, we may invite
you back to play with us"). Meanwhile. . .

Anyway, after I transcribe into Finale format works which appeal to
me I post them on my Web site,

http://www.csudh.edu/oliver/clarmusi/clarmusi.htm

partly to insure that if my backup system at home fails I can
retrieve a last-gasp copy from the Web. Over the years I've
discovered some gems which more often than not are sent to me in
microfiche or microfilm form from sympathetic librarians. About
seven years ago I discovered the Russian score of Rimsky-Korsakov's
three concertos for wind instruments and band (trombone, oboe and
clarinet). It is said that the composer didn't like the heaviness of
the accompaniment for the clarinet concerto so it never got performed
during his lifetime.

Early last month I received a message from Duy Tran, an undergraduate
chemistry (!) major at Arizona State University, requesting copies of
the parts to the clarinet concerto. My wife and I were just about to
leave for our mountain cabin and I told him he'd have to wait until I
returned. His time frame wouldn't allow the wait, so he and the
conductor of the non-music-majors band, Professor Marty Province,
downloaded the Finale file of the score, extracted all of the parts
and did the performance. A link to the video on UTube of that
performance is given below. It was a real thrill to see a
performance which came from music posted on my Web site. I hope
that it will give all of us ideas about video offerings for upcoming
performances of groups to which we belong. Here is what Duy wrote
about his set-up: I used my Canon ZR 200 camcorder to record the
performance (I heard they don't make this camcorder any more since
there were a lot of returns due to the tapes being stuck in the
camcorder. This happened once to me and I had to return it for
repair.) I didn't use an external microphone or any fancy recording
devices, just the camcorder itself. I guess it is the auditorium
that produced the excellent audio. It was built by the famous
architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Once the performance was recorded, I transferred it to my Powerbook
using iMovie and compressed the file as small as I
could. Originally, it was about 78MB. After compression, the file
is about 18MB.

Here is the link. I don't recommend downloading it if you have dial-up only:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj6CfR58v-M

Enjoy!

Oliver

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