Klarinet Archive - Posting 000150.txt from 2010/10

From: Jennifer Jones <helen.jennifer@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Weber concerto No. 1
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:52:09 -0400

Mr. Vann Joe Turner,

My you are wandering. I think it is the requirements of the callow
young man you are criticizing. Not those of Martin.

And who said they are improvements? ...seems to me they are just differenc=
es.

Sincerely,

Jennifer Jones

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Vann Turner <vjoet@-----.net> wrote:
> 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 wood=
en
> 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 =A0of Elgar, replying to critic=
ism
>>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 =3D426(or whatever) and the play=
ers
>> 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. =A0I comforted myself with
>> the thought that I had actually played the work albeit on a 20th cent.
>> Leblanc Boehm.
>> Martin
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