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Re: John Williams Clarinet Concerto

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2007-02-13 21:07

Performance monopolies are not unusual. Anton Stadler had a monopoly on the Mozart Concerto. He carried the parts around in a briefcase (which unfortunately disappeared).

I'm sure that Hermstedt had the exclusive right to play the Spohr Concertos, and the Baermanns had the same for the Mendelssohn Konzertstucke.

At an ICU festival around 1980, Kjell-Inge Stevensson was tossing off the impossible licks from the Francaix Concerto, and I asked him whether he intended to record it. He said that he couldn't, because Jacques Lancelot had a monopoly (which has since expired).

Paganini wouldn't let anyone else even see his concertos. Like Stadler, he arrived with the parts in a suitcase, put them out for rehearsal and retrieved them at the end.

If John Williams feels that Michele Zukovsky is a unique interpreter of his concerto (and her performance that David Blumberg distributes is amazing), he has every right to give her a monopoly. It hardly benefits him economically, since he would get more royalties from music sales and performances if he released it.

Ken Shaw

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