inet WINTER, 1985 Volume 12, No. 2 International Clarinet Society > ■: iifip Pi pin' hot Pete Fountain plays it hot. His clarinet...Leblanc. Experience the heat of a pipin' hot Pete Fountain. Now offered in four Leblanc artist and three Vito student models. For details, write to G. Leblanc Corporation, 7019 Thirtieth Avenue, Kenosha, Wisconsin 53141. © G. Leblanc Corporation 1985. Ail rights reserved. LEWainc^) ■ Musical chairs — Part II 2 Pierce's potpourri 3 met Jerry D. Pierce WINTER, 1985 International Clarinet Society 1985 Conference 4 Volume 12, No. 2 ICS Conference to feature variety 6 ICS Conference competition information 8 An interview with Colin Bradbury 10 James Gillespie The clarinetists of the B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra 12 British clarinet concertos 14 Ewart L. Willey The Czech scene 18 Bohumir Koukal Debussy's works for clarinet — Part II 19 Dennis Nygren Announcements 24 ICS members' activities 26 Clarinet talk 27 Arthur Henry Christmann Classified advertising 27 page 5 Concerts & Recitals 28 Swiss kaleidoscope 30 Brigitte Frick Beethoven's chamber music involving clarinet 34 Ricky Duhaime Claranalysis 40 Lee Gibson Care and repair 41 Robert Schmidt An Ode to Cylindrical Bores 44 page 31 Record rumbles 45 Jim Sauers Record reviews: Alan E. Stanek 46 John W. Kuehn 46 Keith M. Lemmons 46 Linda Pierce 47 William E. Grim 48 Jerry Pierce 48 Lyle Barkhymer 49 Book reviews: John R. Snyder 50 page 24 Dan Leeson 50 New music reviews: Fred Ormand 54 Ewart Willey 55 New publications for future review 55 Tom Foolery 56 Index of advertisers 56 ABOUT THE COVER: The clarinetists of the B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra. See story on page 12. 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He earned Music, Tianjin, People's Republic of China. his B.M. from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN where Spain: Jose Thomas-Perez, General Romero Basart, 131 6.e Dcha., Madrid, Spain. Phone 705 4167. he studied clarinet with David Townsend and saxophone Singapore: Dr. Ong Eng San, 21D Grange Heights, Singapore 0923, with Gail Hall. After two years as the instrumental director Republic of Singapore. in the Greenbush, MN Public Schools, he entered Baylor Sweden: Kjell-Inge Stevensson, Mistelvagen 10, 5-197 00 BRO. Sweden. University where he studied with Richard Shanley, graduat¬ Uruguay: Horst Prentki, Varo 1078, Montevideo, Uruguay. ing with an M.M. in 1983 and went on to pursue his D.M. ICS Correspondent for Germany: Allan Ware, Krumme Strasse 26, D-4930 Detmold, West Germany. at Florida State University studying with Fred Ormand. He © Copyright 1985, INTERNATIONAL CLARINET SOCIETY has performed as clarinetist with the American Wind Sym¬ ISSN 0361-5553 All Rights Reserved phony Orchestra, Waco Symphony Orchestra, San Angelo Published quarterly by the INTERNATIONAL CLARINET SOCIETY Symphony Orchestra, Lake Charles Symphony Orchestra, Designed and printed by: FALLS PRINTING CO. — Idaho Falls, Idaho USA and, most recently, with the Blossom Music Festival. 2 — The Clarinet Pierce's potpourri By Jerry D. Pierce, President, I. C. S. It was a real pleasure this that, as an excellent player, this handicap after the war did past summer to talk to some not stop his career, and, in fact, his name lives on because of of the most knowledgeable some of the works that were written for him — such as the clarinetists about repertoire. Ravel Concerto for the Left Hand — and, in this case, the Although I never started out Schmidt. I might not have known all of these facts, but I do with plans for a hobby of col¬ listen to Paul Harvey's "The Rest of the Story" on the radio lecting clarinet music, when I can. (Paul's son, who writes the program, was once a through the years my search concert pianist himself.) Eric Simon played the Quintet of for the "not so common" li¬ Schmidt many times with Wittgenstein. I must confess that I terature uncovered pieces didn't know of Schmidt's music until all of these events took that I personally think are of place this fall. I now find that Schmidt's influence in music worth. Rosario Mazzeo once might have been the path German composers would have commented to me "I decid¬ followed had there not been Schoenberg. The two Quintets ed long ago that I couldn't that include clarinet (one quintet in A, the other in B-flat) own all of the music written are excellent chamber music and deserve to be better known for clarinet." It really is im¬ than they are. Now that I know of their existence, the search possible to keep track of our Jerry D. Pierce is on to find the music which was once published by Wein¬ ever-expanding repertoire. berger. Having evaluated many clarinet pieces for the annual "re¬ Dan Dolan, M.D., from Asheville, North Carolina has view" issue of The Instrumentalist this year, it is heartening to brought to my attention the fact that Vandoren is no longer see new editions of excellent works which make them once making the "German Facing" reed (that fit "French type" again readily available. One such piece is the Florent mouthpieces). Their German reed is now labeled "German Schmitt Sextour, Op. 120 for six clarinets (E-flat, two B-flats, Cut" or "German Model." These reeds are approximately basset horn [or E-flat alto], bass, and contra bass) now pub¬ 12mm at the tip and appear to us to be somewhat akin to an lished by Billaudot with both score and parts. One will pro¬ E-flat clarinet reed. While Karl Leister has been using this bably need both for a successful performance of this com¬ model of clarinet reed since 1981 (before then he used reeds plex, eleven-minute, four-movement work.