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Author: justwannaplay
Date: 2004-03-07 22:49
Later in this month I've got the good fortune to be staying in Berlin for 5 days and I'd like to set aside some time to explore the music there. Any of you experts know what I should hear, do, or see in Berlin, clarinetwise and/or beyond?
Looking forward to your suggestions. Thanks.
Elizabeth
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Author: diz
Date: 2004-03-07 23:33
The Philharmonie ... your one stop shop for good music in Berlin.
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Author: William Hughes ★2017
Date: 2004-03-08 12:53
See if Rudi Mahall is playing at any of the jazz clubs. He is a phenomenal bass clarinetist.
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Author: Markus Wenninger
Date: 2004-03-08 19:56
Sorry, Mahall should try reeds he can manage a decent embrochure and control on - why he has this reputation of his I have absolutely not the faintest idea; he plays often around here and it gets worse every time. Every Tuesday there´s "unerhörte musik" at the "BKA", Mehringdamm 34 ("www.unerhoerte-musik.de"), 20.30h, be there, a must doubtlessly, there are very recent compositions to be listened to, young performers, in a casual environment, everything as it is supposed to be. Alive. Perhaps You manage a visit to the "Musikinstrumentenmuseum", there are clarinets exhibited from Denner´s workbench, and a complete 'Orsi'-Saxophone family, a very nice and informative place to spend some hours in, goggling at some very weird and exoitc windinstruments, for example, from those golden times when everyone tried to invent some keywork or different bore etc pp for all kinds of instruments.
Markus
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Author: diz
Date: 2004-03-08 20:00
Markus ... you've whetted my appetite to visit schoen-Berlin, thanks.
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2004-03-09 14:48
See the Berlin Phil...easily the most disciplined ensemble in the world with the most tremendous technique...
Try the Berlin Statsoper as well...
Berlin Symphony is excellent too...
David Dow
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Author: Markus Wenninger
Date: 2004-03-10 06:53
Diz-
-I hope there´l be an opportunity to see each other if You manage to visit Berlin? Would be a pleasure for me indeed,
Markus
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Author: justwannaplay
Date: 2004-03-10 13:24
Thanks for all your suggestions! ![[up]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smiley24.gif) I've been looking at Berlin websites, and by what they say the Berlin Philharmonic is not playing when I'll be there ![[frown]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie2.gif) , but I'm sure the Deutsche Symphony Orchestra (I think that's what it was - there seem to be so many) will be fine too. We may catch Die Zauberflote at the Komishe Oper (my husband's favourite) but I would like go to the Statsoper too (l'Elsir d'Amore, Rigoletto, hhmm, which to choose?).
I will definitely go to the Musikinstrumentenmuseum. According to my guide there is a big music shop (the Kulturaufhaus Dussmann), but is there a musical instrument shop? One where I can see clarinets, especially the german kind?
Elizabeth
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Author: diz
Date: 2004-03-10 21:47
Elizabeth said:
We may catch Die Zauberflote at the Komishe Oper (my husband's favourite) but I would like go to the Statsoper too (l'Elsir d'Amore, Rigoletto, hhmm, which to choose?).
well that's a no brainer ... go see BOTH!!
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Author: Markus Wenninger
Date: 2004-03-11 08:07
Yes, there´s quite a variety of qualititatively high standard shops here in Berlin: 1. Holzblasinstrumente Schoenherr, Sophienstr. 20a, "www.holzblasinstrumente-schoenherr.de" ;2. Die Holzbläser, Innsbrucker Str. 35, "www.holzblaeser.com" ;3. Mike Duchstein Saxophon Service (great to drop by for clarinetist too), Kielufer 43 (2nd backyard), "www.saxophon-service.de" .
Hey, but why listening to Mozart when there´s so much of New Music to be heard here?? There´s the "Maerz Musik" -Festival ("www.maerzmusik.de")running from the 16th of March on, go there instead, listen to something of today!
Markus
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Author: justwannaplay
Date: 2004-03-11 08:46
diz said:
well that's a no brainer ... go see BOTH!!
he, he, perhaps you'd like to buy my tickets! Seriously, I doubt I'll have every night free to go to *that* much opera. And I wish you could have seen the look of near panic when I told my husband that Berlin has three opera houses.
Besides, I might take up Markus's suggestion and try to get to the BKA - I didn't see that music festival advertised anywhere so thanks for that.
Thanks too for the music shops - they weren't listed in my guide, and I hope to check them out.
Right now I'm trying to get my head around German vocab and pronunciation - I'm a romance linguist by profession, and, ouch, is German hard! (I know everyone speaks English but what the hey, I like learning languages).
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