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Author: RUSSELL HARLOW
Date: 2002-10-06 08:20
I am looking for information about CBS Orchestra clarinetist Louis Di Santis who was with the CBS Orch in the late 1930's and wrote a method book for clarinet.
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Author: Ed
Date: 2002-10-06 14:00
I believe that Marcellus used to play DiSantis recording of "Throught the Looking Glass" in his masterclass sessions. Maybe David Hattner may have some info.
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2002-10-06 16:27
Marcellus mentioned in a master class that he thought Di Santis was a great, unknown player. I also would be interested in hearing any recordings he made.
Ken Shaw
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-10-07 06:18
During his career, Louis De Santis was principal clarinetist of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, St. Louis Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, and the Philadelphia Orchestra during the 1930-31 season.
He wrote a clarinet method book in 1935 titled <i>New Studies for Clarinet</i>, published by Al Rocky Music Co., New York.
I own a copy of Part One, and can only assume there was at least a Part Two (or more).
Part One (which I continue to use) consists of 5 pages of scale work, 8 pages of exercises on trills, mordents and turns, and the heart of the book which are the melodic studies and paraphrases which are based on 4 difficult and important clarinet passages:
Rimsky-Korsakov "Le Coq d'Or", Liszt "2nd Hungarian Rhapsody" (1st cadenza), Thomas "Mignon" (cadenza in the Overture) and the Scherzo from Tschaikovsky's 4th Symphony.
As Mr De Santis says in the introduction to the book: "...have a clarinetist play an exercise, and then show him that he, quite unwittingly perhaps, has executed a famously formidable passage..." for: "...when the direct attack does not work, try the indirect - outflank the enemy..."
His theory (in his own words): "don't drive a clarinet player (to frustration), but coax a clarinet player (to success)" ...GBK
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