Klarinet Archive - Posting 000127.txt from 2008/01

From: "Daniel Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Bartok Contrasts
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:02:16 -0500

Interesting point about which clarinet to use at an audition.

A few years ago one of the locatl symphony orchestras had an audition for
first clarinet. One very fine player had brought only a B-flat clarinet with
him, but he was asked play some parts of the slow movement of K. 622. He did
so on the B-flat clarinet. After he played, he was thanked and his audition
was over.

After he left, one of the auditioners commented that he would not even
consider a person who would play K. 622 on a B-flat clarinet, even during an
audition.

I do not offer this story to support the use of one clarinet over another,
but the argument was made by Michael Rusinek that, "Certainly at an
audition, the only people that possibly will care if you are playing on the
'wrong' clarinet are the clarinet players, if they can tell at all."

[I changed Michael's double quotes to single quotes because in quoting what
he said, I had double quotes inside of doubles quotes.]

Dan Leeson
dnleeson@-----.net
SKYPE: dnleeson

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