Author: lmliberson
Date: 2020-09-19 23:18
In regards to Mr. Gigliotti's "volume" - many years ago, when the Philly Orchestra was still the orchestra-in-residence at the Ann Arbor May Festival, he was scheduled to perform the Hindemith Clarinet Concerto (which, for reasons unknown to me, did not happen). I asked a friend of mine (a Detroit Symphony Orchestra clarinetist) if he might be going to the performance. His reply was "No, I'm just going to listen to it from my front porch."
Of course, he lived around fifty miles from Hill Auditorium!
In regards to Paul Schaller - he was both a teacher of mine and, following that (with a few years in between), a friend and colleague in the DSO for the last six years of his career. And, yes, he could play loud - very loud. But, also, incredibly soft - and beautifully. And in a crummy hall, to boot!
If you can find them, there are a couple recordings (the DSO with Dorati) in particular that gives you a hint as to how fine a player - loud and soft! - he was: A lovely extended solo in Bartok's "Two Pictures" and the big clarinet sections in "The Miraculous Mandarin", all of which were done in one take!
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