Klarinet Archive - Posting 000308.txt from 2009/01

From: Martin Baxter <martinbaxter@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Hello
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:43:33 -0500

Good to see you back.
Martin
On 22 Jan 2009, at 22:06, rien stein wrote:

> Hello
>
> After a long time of absence I am back on the list again. Hope it =20
> will be as inspiring as it used to be in the past, and to read and =20
> learn again much from our experts.
>
> I don't want to start a political discussion on this list, but =20
> first of all I want to congratulate our USA fellow listers with the =20=

> inauguration of Barak Obama. Let's hope and pray he will be able to =20=

> fulfill at least half of the hopes he raised in their hearts. =20
> Although as an American he is still conservative in some issues =20
> very important to many people individually: capital punishment, =20
> marriage between homosexual men or women, abortion. But maybe he =20
> will come some day to the Netherlands to learn about these subjects!
>
> OK, so far politics, let me now introduce myself to those who don't =20=

> know me, or have forgotten me.
>
> My first name, Rien, is not pronounced like Ryan, but like Rheene, =20
> my family name, Stein, iws German in origin, and thus in a trial of =20=

> a transcription, is more or less pronounced like Stine. I am Dutch, =20=

> which in itself is not a virtue, but gives me a feeling of living =20
> in one of the best countries in the world. If people are interested =20=

> why, they may let me know, I will answer them privately as I do not =20=

> mean to start a discussion about the advantage of the assignment of =20=

> a judge's chair to someone who is popular among the voters over the =20=

> assignment over one who has been educated for that place and after =20
> a sincere procedure is selected for it and the like.
>
> The clarinet and claribass (usually called bass clarinet, but it is =20=

> an instrument as different from a clarinet as a violoncello from a =20
> violin) are the big love in my life. I am married, and happily =20
> married, since 37 years with the same wife, but if my wife would =20
> try to forbid me to play my music I would rather quit her, and she =20
> knows that. I started to play the instrument when I was nearly =20
> thirty years old (indeed: last year I celebrated extensively my =20
> 65th birthday), yet I think I achieved a for an amateur very high =20
> level. I played in public for instance part of Stockhausen's "In =20
> Freundschaft" and Messiaens "Ab=EEme des oiseaux", and, recently, =20
> part of a rhapsody on Dutch folksongs by Geza Frid, all works that =20
> are on the MA program in the Utrecht Conservatory -- but of course, =20=

> I think, not quite on that level.
>
> Hope this is enough. We'll be in touch.
>
> Rien
>
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