Klarinet Archive - Posting 000182.txt from 2009/10

From: "Ledley, Fred" <FLedley@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Coolest
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:51:22 -0400

No other instrument can make the types of sounds that Klezmer musician can =
make on the clarinet - Gershwin's introduction to Rhapsody in Blue was a se=
date version of the repertoire! =20

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Potter [mailto:doug@-----.net]=20
Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 6:15 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Coolest

It is the only wind instrument that overblows by a twelfth (register)
instead of an octave. This is part of why it has such a wide range.

(Appeal to parents) - Amongst the least expensive of orchestral instruments=
.

Opening to rhapsody in Blue.

Doug
http://ConicWave.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Thiel [mailto:mark.thiel@-----.com]=20
Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 2:44 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] Coolest

Dear List,

I recently began teaching beginning clarinet to kids about 10 years old in
an early morning before-school program.=A0 (A bit of a change for me since =
I
last taught a few decades ago and that was calculus.)=A0 Anyway I decided t=
hat
I would have a session every week while the kids were putting their
clarinets away on "Why the clarinet is the coolest instrument in the
world".=A0 I intend to play examples of my reasons.=A0=A0 Anyway, I need yo=
u all
to come up with more points for my list.=A0 If you DON'T think that the
clarinet is the coolest, I highly respect your opinion -- but don't want to
hear it.=A0 I also fully expect many of you to get sidetracked with the iss=
ue
of whether the term "cool"=A0 is still cool --especially among 10-year-olds=
.=A0
Anyway, here is my list so far:

Wide range -- or "it has a lot of notes"=A0 This is the only one I've done =
so
far.=A0 I played chromatically E to C and had them count 1 to 45 along with
me.

Wide dynamic range -- or "plays loud and quiet".=A0 I guess I'll just play
some song and get loud and them fade to niente.

has a good family - I'll bring in all the clarinets I own or can borrow and
play and do a bit of something typical=A0 -- a little Eulenspiegel (no , I
WON'T be apologizing for not having a D clarinet), the bass lick from Grofe
Canyon, etc.

Plays many kinds of music -- I guess I can play something classical, fake m=
y
way through a little, Dixieland, Jazz, Klezmer.=A0 I've no idea what to pla=
y
in the way of Pop or other genres.

Can sound like different animals or whatever
=A0 Cat from Peter & Wolf
=A0 Cuckoo in Pastorale,etc. (that would be a good trivia question -- how m=
any
examples of the clarinet Cuckoo can you name?)
=A0 Rogue in Eulenspiegel?
=A0 there must be other examples ----- ????

Range of tone color -- not sure how to go about this -- can't be too subtle=
.

I anticipate excellent additions and suggestions from all of you.

Mark Thiel

=20
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