Klarinet Archive - Posting 000147.txt from 2008/01

From: "Penny Ward Marcus" <pennyw@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Which clarinet woes (was Bartok Contrasts)
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:59:18 -0500

Thanks for clearing that up. I heard this 30+ years ago from a British
conductor I worked with, but I suspect his information was a bit localized.

Penny

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From: "John Dablin" <jdablin@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 1:52 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Which clarinet woes (was Bartok Contrasts)

> On Monday 07 January 2008 23:08, Penny Ward Marcus wrote:
>> For many years I understood that the majority of clarinetists in
>> Great Britain played nearly all parts on Bb clarinets, starting a
>> craze for low Eb keys on their instruments. I thought that they
>> performed their solo repertoire on Bb as well, including the
>> Mozart. I can't be certain who, or for how long this went on,
>> because I wasn't really paying that much attention to the idea,
>> having a perfectly good A clarinet on hand. This may have
>> something to do with the British band being a major musical
>> entity, and with orchestra having slightly less snob value.
> [ snip ]
>
> Not as far as I know, and I've been an amateur British clarinettist
> for some 50 years. I've heard on this list that many Italians
> played everything on the Bb, but I've no first hand knowledge to
> verify this. British orchestral players have always played both Bb
> and A.
>
> And I would say that until recently, orchestra vs band snobbery was
> very strong in this country, and is still there in some quarters.
>
> John Dablin
> Aylesbury UK
>
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