Klarinet Archive - Posting 000262.txt from 2010/09

From: DGross1226@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart Concerto
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:35:21 -0400

In a message dated 9/9/2010 3:06:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
helen.jennifer@-----.com writes:

> From: Jennifer Jones [mailto:helen.jennifer@-----.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 4:31 PM
> To: The Klarinet Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [kl] Mozart Concerto
>
> Nonetheless, I would be sorry to lose the piece and am glad to know of it
> and be able to play it occasionally.

Sadly, Jennifer, you will probably NEVER be able to "play" it. Playing K.
622 requires both a level of maturity of the part of the player, and a
thorough understanding of the unbelievable complexities of Mozart's creative
genius that is frankly impossible for any high school and most college level
clarinetists. One should not even be allowed to "think" about playing the
Adagio movement until they've had their first mid-life crisis. While it looks
"easy" on the printed page, it is perhaps the most difficult of any work in the
clarinet literature to "play."

Don

P.s. If you don't have tears in your eyes listening to a performance of
the Adagio, the clarinetist has missed the mark. But, as always, YMMV.
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