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Author: donald
Date: 2006-01-15 09:31
An old school friend of mine is a pro recorder player based in Ireland so i was lucky enough to be exposed to top level recorder playing from an early age, and don't find it an amusing concept (well, no more amusing than having to play in a marching band..... which is scary rather than amusing).
Curiously, the repertoire for recorder consists of music written before the clarinet reached popularity and acceptance.... and then (after a gap of about 200 years) modern "contemporary music" (or what we used to call "20th Century" music) in which performers are expected to all kinds of insane chromatic stuff that certainly pushes limits of possibility.
One of my former clarinet teachers actually played and recorded early music on the recorder prior to becoming Principal clarinet in a major orchestra. This gave him a strong background in "period performance" and enabled him to gain practical experience in western music from all the reccent "periods" of music- and thus a very balanced perspective.
donald
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