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Author: CPW
Date: 2005-02-28 01:16
Anyone catch K622 with Morales on WHYY FMs streaming audio?
Aired this evening and it was performed on basset clar.
I am not sure whether it was the engineering but sometimes that horn sounds just a little bit, well, sort of honking in the lowest register and maybe a bit brittle up top.
Musically it was pleasant and sedate, and sometimes nearly approaching inaudibility ...but then again, this was through computer speakers.
IMHO beats Brymer but falls short of Marcellus.
Anyone hear it on a real radio or better yet live???
Against the windmills of my mind
The jousting pole splinters
Post Edited (2005-02-28 01:36)
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2005-02-28 03:04
I heard it live twice and both times it was great - different locations in the hall.
Streaming audio is usually pretty bad. It almost never does justice to the Clarinet.
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2005-02-28 03:07
btw - he got a standing ovation from the Philadelphia audience. And they usually don't stand for that piece at all. Clarinet players love the Mozart Concerto, but unless the player is like Ricardo, only the Clarinetists really get excited about it.
We see the depth of it, many only see the simplicity.
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Author: clarinetmajr
Date: 2005-02-28 03:43
I heard the broadcast tonight and I went to the performance (the one on Friday at 2pm). To be honest I had a little trouble hearing Morales in the live performance. He has a very beautiful, resonant tone but I don't know that it carried well- to where I was sitting. There were times I felt it was just too quiet. It didn't sound bad on the radio tonight, but it did sound somehow different. The lower register had a different quality to it as did the upper than I remember hearing live- but then again this could just be the bad reception in my car.
I gave him a standing ovation. The whole program was great- both the Mozart and the Tchaikovsky. Everyone around me seemed so much in awe of Ricardo and it made me wonder if I was surrounded by clarinet players....
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Author: Steve Epstein
Date: 2005-02-28 04:20
The radio announcer mentioned that Morales was playing a basset clarinet as was used in Mozart's time -- not a direct quote -- but I got the (mis)impression he was playing on an antique basset, not a modern one. That's not true, is it? He played a modern basset clarinet, correct?
Steve Epstein
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Author: Steve Epstein
Date: 2005-02-28 04:27
Oh, and on the radio, when he demonstrated the difference between the score for the basset vs not-basset clar, I think he squeeked on a low note on the basset clar. ![[grin]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie5.gif)
Steve Epstein
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2005-02-28 09:46
The Clarinet was completely modern and (new??) was an extension to his A Clarinet. Morrie had just worked on it in NYC the day before the dress rehearsal.
That thing is heavy too!!!! (I held it briefly after the rehearsal for him while he was talking to a student).
Post Edited (2005-02-28 09:59)
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2005-02-28 12:58
Is it an extension of his Selmer Recital or another manufacturer?
He uses a strap but I have seen them with floor peg for use in seated position.
I also heard the audio on a computer.
From the above comments, I get the impression that acoustics in the Kimmel center vary greatly from one area to another. Comments?
Edit Added next day:
after switching formats and processing to a CD it sounds very good and more spirited.....The pc speakers with the stream did not do it justice.
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
Post Edited (2005-03-01 12:26)
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2005-02-28 14:33
Selmer.
I didn't get that feeling at all being there, it was a straight up performance.
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2005-02-28 14:43
I really get the impression that you lose something with streaming audio.
Is there anyway around this?
Sound card upgrade? etc.
When WFLN (now defunct as classical station) used to broadcast the Phila on radio, it sounded great.
By the way, Boston Records has Morales recording of French solos for clar
which is great. Also their chamber music stuff with Donald Montanaro is very good.
And Wayne Rapier at Boston Records is super to deal with.
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
Post Edited (2005-02-28 14:46)
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2005-02-28 14:57
Streaming Audio (radio) is almost always set at a very low level so that folks can't easily record it. Also so that it doesn't choke up. It can be like an AM radio - better Am radio is still AM.
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Author: CPW
Date: 2005-02-28 23:38
Is there a way to record streaming audio onto something like Cakewalk home studio 2 or similar???
or onto realaudio or windows sound recorder ....or Anything for that matter without having to put a mike infront of the PC speakers????
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2005-03-01 00:01
Streaming Audio sometimes isn't possible to record on 1 computer as there are security blocks in place. Even with programs like "stream recorder" they are still not possible with only 1 computer.
Work around is to play the stream on an older computer and patch it from the speaker of old system to input of new system and record it with a program like Stream Recorder or my personal (and inexpensive yet very powerful) favorite Cakewalks "pyro" program.
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Author: ChrisC
Date: 2005-03-01 00:35
I though this thread was going to be about Ricardo Morales' opinion of the streaming audio medum.
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2005-03-01 12:34
See my edit above......sounds much better after processing it via Nero Wave editor onto a cdR then playing on a real sound system (if K-mart counts as a sound system)
Blummy....you need to record that Clintonesque voice for all to hear.
Sounds like the guy on the Bob and Tom show I would wager.
"I did not share reeds with that girl"
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
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