Klarinet Archive - Posting 000029.txt from 2010/08

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bass Part - Rachmaninov 2
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:57:42 -0400

Ken

"confused if he had used different fingering"? Huh....doesn't he know the "regular" fingerings related to written notes?
Such a great player to be so easily "confused". ;-) I guess this would indicate he would be easily confused when playing
Bb clarinet and moving between Bb parts and transposed C parts? Just a thought.

While "most professionals" will have to learn to transpose...this would not be the case for those who make a it a point
to find/purchase/use the instrument the composer specified. :-) Not easy...but it can and has been done.

Forest

-----Original Message-----
From: K S [mailto:krsmav@-----.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 8:41 AM
To: The Klarinet Mailing List
Subject: Re: [kl] Bass Part - Rachmaninov 2

The Bass in A was the subject of a good string on the Yahoo Early
Clarinet board at
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EarlyClarinet/messages.

Among other things, a member mentioned that the Philadelphia Orchestra
owns one. I mentioned a master class in which Ron Reuben (the retired
Philadelphia bass clarinetist) said that he used only a Bb bass. He
said that he had learned the parts on the Bb bass and that he would be
confused if he had used different fingerings. In his opinion,
transposition of even the difficult parts (e.g., La Valse) was
something that any professional player needed to learn.

I suggest, however, that readers skip the last few messages, which
were a renewal by Tony of his criticism of me personally, to which I
unwisely responded.

Ken Shaw
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