Klarinet Archive - Posting 000413.txt from 2010/09

From: Jennifer Jones <helen.jennifer@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart Concerto
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:09:26 -0400

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org> wrote:
> On 14 Sep 2010, at 05:32, Jennifer Jones wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Williams-DeVries, Kathy
>> <Kathy.Williams@-----.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps Jennifer's reaction is one of youth and personality. I have bee=
n desperately in love with the piece since I first heard it at the tender a=
ge of nine and always aspired to play it. I performed it in 1999 with orche=
stra and poured my heart and soul into it.
>>
>> It was a temporary reaction, caused by over-playing the first few
>> bars. =A0I like the piece. =A0I just got tired of it at the time.
>
> http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/lookup.php/Klarinet/1999/10/000504.txt
>
> ...in case it interests you.

Yes. It does interest me. Thank you.

...I should think that an occasional bit of external grease on the
body of a wooden clarinet would be no worse than oiling the wooden
clarinet. In fact, it should be just as good for it. Be sure to
spread the grease out well though, so it doesn't cake dusty crud. ;-)

On another subject, I was playing with your 'magic diminuendo' the
other day with the second mvt of Brahms second sonata. It seems to me
that it is helpful in playing the espressivo just after the swell in
the jump from A to F (fifth bar, third line of page 16 imslp simrock
copy). That espressivo seems to require a gentleness (and therefore
an underlying steadiness), which is helped by keeping the breathing
muscles tensed in opposition to one-another. Does this make sense to
you?

-Jennifer
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