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Author: diz
Date: 2002-01-09 04:37
OK - now for something new (for me at least)!
My favourite clarinet quote has got to be Mozart's:
If only we had clarinets? You have no idea of the effect of clarinets. Has anyone else got particularly delightful clarinet quotes from famous people?
thanks
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-01-09 05:11
diz...I have a few favorites. The one you so aptly quoted is probably the most famous, but I've always enjoyed this one from Curt Sachs:
"The origin of the clarinet is unknown. It has been found in primitive civilizations, but only in recent layers, and the question of whether it migrated from a lower to a higher civilization, or from a higher to a lower one, is not yet decided."
Curt Sachs: The History of Musical Instruments 1940
(after having heard some of my beginning students - I'm still not sure)...GBK
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Author: ken
Date: 2002-01-09 09:16
"The clarinet is an epic instrument. It's voice is that of heroic love; and if masses of brass instruments awaken the idea of warlike troops.... numerous unisons of clarinets, heard at the same time, seem to represent loving women, with proud eyes and deep affections, who sing while fighting, and who crown the victors, or die with the defeated."
-- Hector Berlioz
( I suppose there must have been a few decent bands around in those days! )
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Author: Larry Liberson
Date: 2002-01-09 11:52
How 'bout....
The clarinet's great for the labor
Of Mozart, of Schubert, of Weber.
But when Schoenberg lets fly
With the E-flat up high
You'd rather not have him as neighbor!
(A sense of humor, please....)
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-01-09 19:27
When Benny Goodman took his band to Russia in 1962, the tour was filled with the usual amount of tension (mostly from Benny) and from the Russian officials.
When Zoot Sims returned back to the United States after the tour was over, he was asked what it was like to play with Benny in Russia.
His answer: "Every gig with Benny is like playing in Russia." ...GBK
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Author: Leanne
Date: 2002-01-10 03:05
Some quotes from clarinet players:
“That’s why jazz is so lame, there aren’t enough clarinets.”
“First chair just plays really high, loud obnoxiously.”
"Isn't that what all clarinets do?"
Or at the clarinet quartet practice, second chair proclaims:
“My part sounds like a demented clown.”
I knew these would come in handy someday.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-01-10 03:11
Leanne wrote:
> Or at the clarinet quartet practice, second chair proclaims:
> “My part sounds like a demented clown.”
Playing something by Leoncavallo, no doubt ...
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-01-10 03:21
Mark, quick ... there's something buring on your stove!!!
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-01-10 03:21
Bugger!! that should have read ... "burning" on your stove!
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Author: IHL
Date: 2002-01-10 11:26
Shut up!!!
-french horn player in band, commenting on my altissimo warmup
btw I did it on purpose
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Author: Swing Band Queen Katai Katai
Date: 2002-04-07 07:49
"Oh! See! IT's those clarinet players! They have issues. They need to on that one show...what's it called? The one where people fight? Oh yeah! Jerry Springer! They need to go on Jerry Springer to work out their issues! Jerry, Jerry, Jerry,...."-Our band director on the clarinet section and their "issues".
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