Klarinet Archive - Posting 000097.txt from 2008/12

From: Tom Puwalski <tski1128@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gran Partitta: Alto versus Basset
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:40:07 -0500

Bear,
I'm getting ready to record the Quintet with a quartet of Yamaha =20
silent strings and a windsynth. It's time for musicians to re-=20
interpret museum music and try to gain some listeners out there. Is =20
what I'm going to do heretical? Yea it probably is. Do I think I can =20
give a "valid" interpretation off quintet in this way. I think =20
Tomita's Snow Flakes are Dancing album, where he synthesized the music =20
of Debussy, is brilliant. I think he played Debussy better than alot =20
of performers did on the instruments on which they were written. =20
That's just me and that's just my opinion. I won't be using vintage =20
"synths" or old pitch to voltage, no "original electronics here". Just =20
lots of new fangled electric gizmos that are capable of amazing nuance =20
and sensitivity. And A Great Piece of MUSIC! I suspect that if =20
Mozart would have heard and EWI 4000s he would have written for it!

Tom Puwalski, The artist formerly known as Sarge, Clarinetist with =20
"The Atonement", author of "The Clarinetists Guide to Klezmer" and to =20
his knowledge the only person playing the music of Dave Tarras on a =20
windsynth!
On Dec 20, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Bear Woodson wrote:

> Hi, Nancy.
>
> I hope you have a wonderful Chanukkah AND a Happy
> Rockerfeller!
>
>> Bear,
>> I love your music, but DON"T mess with Mozart!
>
> "Mess with"? All I'm suggesting is:
>
> a) That when any work is gorgeous, that a lot of musicians
> would want to play it; and
>
> b) when they play the original, or a Transcribed Version, they
> have to use Available instruments. (Frankly, I wouldn't be
> surprised if there are Transcriptions of the Gran Partitta for
> Strings Alone, or for Brass Alone.)
>
> Who here is suggesting that the Gran Partitta is NOT a
> gorgeous work?
>
> Who here is suggesting that it is NOT worthy of many
> musicians wanting to play it?
>
> Who here is suggesting that Bach, Mozart, Beethoven,
> Brahms, Prokofieff, Samuel Barber and Hindemith, did
> NOT transcribe at least of few of their own works, while
> deliberately choosing NOT to transcribe other works of
> theirs?
>
> Who here is suggesting that Alto Clarinet Players NOT
> wish that the Gran Partitta, Requiem and other Masterworks
> by Mozart and other good composers, had been written for
> Alto Clarinets rather than Basset Horns?
>
> For those who don't know me well, please realize, that not
> only was I never an Alto Clarinetist, but I was never a Player
> of ANY woodwind instrument on a long term basis! I've
> never touched ANY size of clarinet, other than a Bb Soprano,
> and that was briefly over 30 years ago!
>
> Plus, I've never even seen a Basset Horn in person, but as
> I listen to the Bassets on my Marlboro CD of the Gran Partitta,
> it would have been nice to have written a sonata or concerto for
> it, when I was still composing. At least I got to write several
> accompanied sonatas and Konzertst=FCcke plus 7 concerti, each
> for a different solo instrument, before I was forced to stop
> months ago. Oh, well.
>
>
> Bear Woodson
>
> Home: 520 - 881 - 2558
> "Bear Woodson" <bearwoodson@-----.net>
>
>
>
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