Klarinet Archive - Posting 000365.txt from 2009/02

From: Michael Nichols <mrn.clarinet@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sarasate Carmen Fantasy Performed on Clarinet
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:31:10 -0500

The clarinetist is Mate Bekavac. He's from Slovenia.

To get the really, really high notes out, it looks to me like he puts
his bottom teeth on the reed. (And now I see from Alex's message
that he apparently saw the same thing I did)

According to the YouTube page, it is Bekavac's own arrangement. There
are three names listed in the captioning that appears in the video
itself, however. The first one is Pablo de Sarasate, who wrote the
famous Carmen Fantasy for violin. The second one is "F. Borne," who I
am assuming is Francois Borne, the French flautist who wrote a Carmen
Fantasy for flute. The third name listed is Mate Bekavac himself.

So, if I'm reading this right, it looks like Bekavac must have taken
excerpts from the Sarasate Carmen Fantasy for violin and the Borne
Carmen Fantasy for flute (both of which are old enough to have entered
the public domain, since Sarasate died in 1908 and Francois Borne died
in 1920), and somehow adapted them for clarinet to create his own
arrangement.

As for the Gypsy Airs, I don't know if Bekavac has made an arrangement
of those, but there is a Kalmen Opperman arrangement for Bb clarinet
and piano.

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