Klarinet Archive - Posting 000148.txt from 2010/10

From: "Vann Turner" <vjoet@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Weber concerto No. 1
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:01:21 -0400

Enjoyable post, Martin! But don't you think you aren't sufficiently pure in
your requirements? Shouldn't it be performed only with a hard carved wooden
mouthpiece, and the reed against the upper lip? I'm sure Weber and Mozart
would have strong opinions about such things, and would object to all the
acoustical improvements in the intervening centuries. hehehehehehe

vJoe
(amateur)

>I remember the (well authenticated) story of Elgar, replying to criticism
>in the "Times" of a Brass Band concert where his cello concerto was played
>in a transcription for solo Euphonium. His words were "I would rather that
>audiences heard my music played in this form than that they didn't hear it
>in the form in which I wrote them ...or even at all.
> Aren't we sometimes a little 'precious' about this. I heard one rather
> callow young man saying that he could only enjoy the Mozart Quintet if it
> were played on a 6-key clarinet in domestic surroundings. I asked if he
> also required gut strings, a pitch of A =426(or whatever) and the players
> and audience in !8th cent. clothes, also the furnishings of the room to be
> of this period. He pontificated that this was desirable for full
> enjoyment, so I asked where he got his eighteenth century ears. At this
> point I was dismissed as a musical philistine. I comforted myself with
> the thought that I had actually played the work albeit on a 20th cent.
> Leblanc Boehm.
> Martin

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