Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2007-01-15 03:22
Today, while kept in by bad weather, I re-read The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet, edited by Colin Lawson. It was published back in 1995, and it is a collection of essays (some good, some fair, some poor) on various aspects of the whole clarinet experience.
I was surprised (and, at the same time, quite pleased) to note that, in a book that purports to cover the spectrum of the clarinet world, in a book that contains an extensive section on the "ghost" clarinets up in the high range (Ab, G, B and so forth), and a whole chapter on the basset horn, that there is only one (that's uno, adien, un, eins) mention of the alto clarinet in Eb (and then only en passant, when introducing the basset horn), along with one photo of one included in a group Leblanc (naturally) photograph.
Something to consider, when taking up the alto clarinet - the experts in the clarinet field (at least in jolly ol' England) don't even see fit to acknowledge it in their omnibus treatment on the work of clarinet playing...
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