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Author: ruben
Date: 2019-10-15 23:53
There are now quite a few recordings by the incomparable Israeli clarinetist on YouTube. I would like to call people's attention to this. Did any of you study with him? What were lessons like with him? He lived a while here in Paris and the last period of his sadly short life was spent in London.
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Author: Paul Globus
Date: 2019-10-16 03:15
I knew Yona Ettlinger well and studied with him. I have written about him on this bulletin board in the past. I think you can probably do a search and read those posts.
Yona was unique. An exceptionally intelligent man and a superb musician, he had a wonderful approach to clarinet playing that still sounds fresh to my ears decades after his death.
Along with all of his former pupils, I consider myself incredibly lucky to have known him.
Paul Globus
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Author: Paul Globus
Date: 2019-10-16 03:18
You are right. Yona had apartments in both Paris and London. I stayed with him in both. And yes, I believe he died of a heart while in London.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2019-10-16 12:36
Paul: Thank you for the information. I will read what you have written attentively. Maybe Philippe Cuper here in Paris studied with Ettlinger too. Do you know whether he did?
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Author: Paul Globus
Date: 2019-10-16 16:19
Glad that Tony Pay has chimed in here because I was going to mention that I was fairly sure he knew Yona Ettlinger through their mutual association with the Guildhall School of Music in London.
Not sure whether Philippe Cuper studied with Yona.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2019-10-17 13:01
Paul: Thank you. I found much information on a previous post during which he was raised as a subject. I found especially interesting your remark about how his tone sounded very pure and focused but rather smallish sitting next to him, but projected beautifully in the hall or at a distance. I wonder how he achieved this. The famous-or notorious, depending on how you want to look at it-Sergiu Celibidiache, had tremendous admiration for Ettlinger. Yet Celibidache wasn't an easy man to please. I though I'd raise the subject of Ettlinger again as there are several items on YouTube that are fairly recent.
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Author: Paul Globus
Date: 2019-10-17 18:39
I've heard many funny stories about Celibidiache. Not surprised to learn that he admired Yona, Lot's of musicians of that epoch did.
The word that Yona often used with me to describe a good clarinet sound was 'lifted." A lifted sound, meaning I suppose a sound that projected. He certainly had that kind of sound himself and my guess is that he achieved it by good breathing and blowing techniques. Indeed, he often would admonish me and his other students to play with "more air" but there was probably much more to it than just volume.
Yona Ettlinger was a shooting star and we are fortunate that, through recordings, he still shines a light on those of us who love high-level music making on the clarinet.
Paul Globus
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