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Re: Harold Wright

Author: D Dow
Date: 2003-04-03 18:15

I had the opportunity to try Mr. Wright's A clarinet which he got from Ralph McLane... I can honestly say it was the most incredible instrument I had ever played on....it was a very mellow warm instrument. Where it ever went I have no idea. Maybe another student inhereted it from Mr. Wright.
In lessons Mr. Wright would demonstrate (once in a while) a given passage, and I can honestly say up close his tone was electrifying. It was both dark and round with a fullness throughout the compass no other clarinet player I have heard ever had.

Recently in our orchestra (in September)the conductor made a comment asking me if I ever studied with Harold Wright....I said "yes", somewhat confounded .. then he went on to say he was a student of Harold Wright's for seven years. After rehearsal we went out to swap stories. I had no idea that Mr. Wright's playing could be detected in mine, but here is a strange exapmple of how deep an influence can be heard in one's playing. It was an incident that left me feeling very proud to be a clarinet player and thought of as having a sound even remotely akin to such a great example....

David Dow

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