Autumn 2014 Volume 39, No 3 TWO EVENTS IN ONE! Haileybury Full news of another Period Pieces great playday - Sunday, 19th October Vintage Sax Debussy Première Rhapsodie insight Playing to your strengths new syllabus Drums and rock‘n’roll Adolphe Sax at 200 RICHARD EDWARDS inside Welcome­to­the­autumn­magazine Regulars 16 Debussy Première Rhapsodie insight from Editor’s NotEs 2 Editor’s Notes david Campbell, stephanie richard Edwards reeve thank you to the many readers who took the the faroese Clarinet and time to respond to my request for feedback Double reed Choir with 2 Clarinet & Saxophone 20 Adolphe Sax at 200 regarding the fresh look to the magazine. William Mathias Society details drums and rock and roll, thankfully the comments were very positive Music Service players at Portmeirion richard ingham and the design will develop further, as you 10 8 News may notice with this issue. What was even 22 Playing To Your Strengths more encouraging was the feedback on 37 Reviews the new trinity syllabus, content which seemed to receive universal approval. Maintaining a high standard of 37 Cd Chris Walters content is the toughest aspect of an editor’s 41 Concert task, and reflects the commitment of our 42 Music 26 Who Are Our Readers? very active and supportive editorial team. derek Jones from south our challenge is, of course, to maintain this 46 Diary Australia talks to stephanie for the single reed community, given that it is details of concerts, courses reeve such a broad church to cater for. and playdays Considerable work has gone into the planning of the Single reed Day and trade 28 Breathing Fundamentals exhibition at Haileybury College on Sunday, had captured his imagination and he was Protection Act and our increasing reluctance 52 Readers’ Letters for the Saxophone 19th october. this looks to be a splendid hoping to tour here with his clarinet choir. to disclose personal information, this Perspectives from the day, with top tutors and a fine lunch in with My name had been picked from the CASS information is in the members only area on 53 New Members Alexander technique, Josh 20 the ticket price. the trade exhibition will be Directory. in response to his request i our website. Do make use of it; you never Kemp excellent and a good opportunity to view formed a choir which was easy as we were know what it might lead to! 54 Classifieds such a wide range of single reed motivated by the opportunity to visit Look out for the prize draw in the news 30 Jon Taylor instruments, accessories and music. it is Denmark in exchange, and since then we section of this magazine. there are two pairs exciting to see so many of the smaller music have regularly collaborated in joint of tickets on offer to enjoy the royal 54 Index of Advertisers on busking, John robert publishers there. if you are not able to ventures. earlier this year Peder contacted Liverpool Philharmonic orchestra, Brown attend the full day but would like to visit just me from the faroe islands, where he now featuring the American saxophone soloist the trade exhibition, entrance to that is free lives, with the result that his clarinet and timothy McAllister playing John Adams’ Features 33 Report and you will be welcome to attend at double reed choir spent five days here. they Saxophone Concerto. it’s a mouth watering the saxophone in Zagreb, anytime. if there is something specific you then visited Cambridge where Stephanie programme, celebrating the 200th 4 Clarinet & Saxophone Eugene rousseau would like to try, do contact the trader reeve organised an excellent programme of anniversary of Adolphe Sax’s birth, on Society’s Single Reed Day beforehand to ask for it to be brought to the events for them, including putting together thursday, 27th november in the newly event. a clarinet choir for the occasion. is this the refurbished Philharmonic Hall. and Trade Exhibition 34 ABRSM Saxophone Grade 5 19 years ago i received a phone call from seed of another choir? this is a fine example you may recall the caption competition on sunday, 19th october 2014 Your guide to the new Peder riis-Jensen, a prominent clarinettist of how membership of the Society can the back page of the last issue. Alastair Book now! syllabus, stephanie reeve and teacher in Denmark, asking if there was benefit members through networking. now, Penman won with ‘the lady’s not for tuning’. 47 a clarinet choir in north Wales. this area mainly due to the constraints of the Data I 10 Antony Pay 52 Where Can I Play? Approaches to period Barnet performance, William Upton Join the Clarinet & Saxophone Society at www.cassgb.org 56 A Question of Bores The Clarinet & Saxophone Society of Presidents: Richard­Ingham­and­Janet *Secretary: William­Upton, 14 What Is It About Vintage John robert Brown Conn Saxophones? Kenneth Great Britain was­founded­in­1976­for Hilton Flat­504,­California­Building,­Deals Gateway,­London,­SE13­7SF Morris and steve Crow the­benefit­of­everyone­who­has­an Past Presidents: Lt.­Col.­Trevor­Le­M. 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Happily, nicholas spectrum­of­classical­performance,­from­contemporary­to­early­music,­full Shackleton, a Cambridge scientist and a fine symphony­orchestra­to­intimate­chamber­ensemble. amateur clarinettist, owned a large collection of early clarinets, and Shackleton Period performance, or early music e, followed by keys for Ab/eb and f#/C#; had already asked Daniel Bangham to copy performance, uses musicological detective then in the 19th century the increasing tonal some of them. “that was the beginning of work to help us play music as it might have complexity of music demanded the addition Daniel’s career as a maker, and his been performed when it was new. A musical of numerous keys to facilitate complex instruments are very good, or rather they example 2B Mozart Clarinet Concerto 3rd movement bars 16-23 score, even a fiendish modern one in which chromatic passages and to even out timbre got good”, says Pay. “He likes to tell people the ink outweighs the paper, presumes a and tuning. today the ‘five-keyed clarinet’ is that when i went to try his first attempt, just great deal of contextual knowledge by the regarded as the standard early music days before i had to play it in concert, i blew performer, and in older works conventions clarinet. these instruments were made from it and said, ‘Well that’s no bloody good!’ But that were once second nature are alien to european boxwood, rather than the he quickly adjusted it.” Pay’s armoury now musicians today. “our challenge,” says Pay, imported African Blackwood used today, includes some 30 instruments – a modest “is to try to guess what the performance and other differences include the width of number when compared to the collections constraints were from what people wrote the bore, the size and positioning of the tone required by recorder specialists.