Klarinet Archive - Posting 000023.txt from 2010/06

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] clarinets in original key
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:53:01 -0400


Nancy Buckman wrote,
>>I hate transposing, so I bought "transposing" instruments. I have been
>>asked to leave many times because I refused to transpose. And it wasn't a
>>pitch issue...the conductor simply wanted the music on a different
>>clarinet, even when it wasn't what the composer called for. No probs...I
>>left, happily!
>>Sounds macho to me.
>>

Holy cow. Nancy, bravo for saying bye-bye. I'm trying to imagine why a
conductor would object to a clarinet player using the instrument the
composer specified. I can understand the opposite situation (for instance,
when the score calls for clarinet in C and, in the interest of accuracy, the
conductor objects to transposing it onto Bb or Eb clarinet), but complaining
about too much accuracy is goofy.

Lelia Loban
http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/Lelia_Loban

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