Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 1999-08-06 19:27
Mark Charette wrote:
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Koussevitzky definately had an opinion! (I forget who, but a very famous clarinetist lost his job with the BSO for playing a metal clarinet when Koussevitzky saw him).
Mark -
The player was Gaston Hamelin. See the Klarinet posting from a few years ago at http://www.sneezy.org/Databases/Logs/1994/07/000026.txt. However, that story, attributed to Mazzeo, was at least third-hand. Maybe Sherman Friedland can give the lowdown. Somehow it seems unlikely.
I have a copy of the Grenadilla LP containing the Debussy, which has a picture of Hamelin holding a metal clarinet, so, unless he was just paid to hold it for a Selmer publicity photo, it does seem that he played one.
On another subject, I know that the public correction of spelling errors is bad netiquette, but could I, as an old Engligh major, request that you set an example and spell "definitely" correctly, with an "i" instead of an "a". It's like misplaying a scale.
Pedantically,
Ken Shaw
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