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Author: Chris
Date: 2002-08-19 20:05
I came across a bibliography which lists several older clarinet articles. Unfortunately none of my local University libraries have these magazines, since they are from the 1950s.
Does anyone have the following two articles they could send me? I'll gladly pay for your postage and mailing costs.
I'm looking for:
"The use of alternate fingerings" by Sidney Forrest. mus _Clarinet_ n 25:7-12, Winter, 1956-57.
"The use of correct fingerings" by Gino Cioffi. _Woodwind World_, 2:13-14, June 1958.
Thank you,
Chris Zello
czello@hotmail.com
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2002-08-20 13:59
Chris -
I have a complete set of the original and current series of Clarinet and also a good run of Woodwind World beginning in 1958. As I recall, the two articles were pretty short and elementary -- only about a page.
Contact me privately about them.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: David Dow
Date: 2002-08-20 15:40
Cioffi was Harold wright's predecessor in the Boston Symphony. According to stories from teachers the Leinsdorf years were hard on the Boston symphony and morale was quite low. When cioffi left I think it was around 70 or 71 and then Harold Wright took over. Cioffi was an amzing player and had a full sweet tone. He also had a mouthpiece line as well--or so a colleaugue told me. Toscanni was the person who imported him from italy for the NBC Orchestra but thats a whole other bag of fish!
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2002-08-21 14:45
Cioffi was an amazing player. Difficulties simply didn't exist for him, and he could play with both incredible lightness and with enough volume, even on dull notes, to rattle the walls. I have a great Tchaikovsky 5th with Monteux, where his opening solo and other solos are just perfect. I think the best place to hear his work is on the Strauss wind serenades, conducted by Eric Simon, which were issues on Boston Records and may have been reissued. (His recording of the Brahms Sonata # 2, however, is badly out of tune.)
Cioffi played double lip and learned to play with the reed on top.
I went to a master class with him in 1958. He said he played on an Italian crystal mouthpiece given to him by his father, and that he was introducing copies. However, I've never heard of any. Sherman Friedland may know more -- he studied with Cioffi and has several very fine postings about him.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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