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Re: Like JeanJean?

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2019-06-13 15:58

Responders (including me) may have "over sold" the vibrato thing a bit. As mentioned above, Daniel Bonade did not really use or teach vibrato and he is the father of the French/American School of clarinet playing. Consequently you don't really hear any vibrato in legitimate classical clarinet playing here in the States.

I had to hear about schools of thought about vibrato from my oboe and flute playing friends because I was not hearing it from Combs, Brody, Yeh, Wollwage (Chicago guys).

That said I recall playing a performance of Don Giovanni back while I was still in high school. The conductor was Dutch and at one point in the initial rehearsal he looked at the two of us playing clarinet (another young upstart) and asked, "can you guys play with vibrato?" The two of us beamed (as upstarts do) and proceeded to render the least "American" version of Don Giovanni you can imagine!

...............Paul Aviles

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