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Re: Holding Clarinets up

Author: Ron Scholer
Date: 2012-11-21 04:03

I think in the US they call it a "Mic," with big huge speakers? Just checking.

Speaking about Mahler's 6th Symphony, if asked to play Mahler's 9th, Symphony of 1000. With 500 musicians and 500 singers, 35 clarinetist, maybe more, stay home. you won't be missed.

However, for those others that dare to play, wear ear plugs, and keep that appointment with that ear doctor you have the following day.

I once heard this played by the Cleveland Orchestra, at Severance Hall, and I remember hearing the first chair clarinetist playing with a very heavy vibrato. Very strange I thought and it didn't make sense. Later it was comfirmed that this severe vibrato was the players teeth shattering from the stage vibrations. Poor Georg Szell was never the same.

Yes this never happened, a bad joke, although Cleveland did perform it around 1974 or so. The decibel level was so high it was unreadable. Cal Tech reported a possible minor earthquake.

BA, MA, MSE, MST

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