The Clarinet BBoard
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Author: Wisco99
Date: 2015-04-14 20:21
In college my wind ensemble conductor, an Eastman graduate and clarinet player would always start each rehearsal with us playing a Bach choral, and we would keep hearing him telling us to get a "dark" sound. When he finally achieved a sound that seemed not to project and lacked overtones and sounded dead he was satisfied. We could have arrived at that point much quicker if we all just played into a box filled with cotton balls to suck up all the overtones. A bucket mute on a trombone gets the same effect. It just took the life out of the music. I want to hear color, and color is in the light spectrum, darkness is a lack of light or color. Once I got the heck out of that place and entered the world of conductors for national acts, Broadway shows, and even major symphonies I never heard that term again. Life was beautiful.
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