Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2013-01-22 00:05
"You will either laugh or cry but I have also played the Artie Shaw on the Clarineo and Eb clarinet and made my poor husband transpose/improvise the piano part up"
That's pretty extreme, Paula! Your husband's one rare dude. My wife digs my playing, but I'm not sure she'd be down with me playing it on eefer. I don't intend to try it, either!
The craziest experience I ever had with the Shaw Concerto was when I was about fifteen years old. I thought I was such a hotshot playing that piece--until I took it in to Jerome Callet's trumpet studio in NYC. Jerry is a unique guy--he's pretty well known in the brass world as a maker of custom trumpets and an altissimo trumpet guru--well, he used to talk to me about clarinet embouchure, and encourage me to develop my own ideas (looking back, Jerry was a greater influence on my playing than any clarinet teacher).
That day, he pulled out a Bb trumpet and played along with me--the entire Shaw Concerto, note for note, glissandi and all, in unison. I've never heard anything like it before, and doubt I ever will again.
Eric
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