Klarinet Archive - Posting 000033.txt from 2008/01

From: "Benjamin Maas" <benmaas@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Legato Finger Motion
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:34:04 -0500

Great description, Sean... It is exactly as I remember hearing it described
from my teachers.

I never had the pleasure of studying with Stanley Hasty, but I did study
with two of his students (Ken Grant and Peter Hadcock). Both teachers spent
extended periods of time working with me on the legato technique of
fingering. Not only does it help with legato, but the extended work on the
precision of fingering allows better and more fluid technical fingering.

Later, during my graduate studies, I had the great fortune to study with
Mitchell Lurie. One of the things he asked almost immediately was if I had
either studied with Stanley hasty or one of his students. When I asked him
how he could tell, he told me that Hasty had one of the best legatos of any
player he had heard. All of his students also had that trait.

Obviously good technique is good technique, but Hasty's method of achieving
it had a definite and repeatable result.

Just my recollection, FWIW...

--Ben

Benjamin Maas
Fifth Circle Audio
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.fifthcircle.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Osborn
> Subject: [kl] Legato Finger Motion
>
> Dear Ken and everyone,
>
> I have studied legato fingers with Stanley Hasty, and
> complied a multi-media guide to mastering what he taught.
> Please look at my website page
> http://www.osbornmusic.com/legato.html where I have text,
> musical exercises, mp3 files (follow the links) and video to
> help you. Please realize that the sound on the video is rather harsh.
>
> Please let me know what you think, and if you found it helpful.
>
> Legato fingers are very important, and not minutia.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sean Osborn, Soloist/Chamber Musician, and Metropolitan Opera
> Orchestra, retired www.osbornmusic.com
>
>

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