I’ve been playing Légère Reeds for months now. I hope to play all repertoire in upcoming orchestral season on a Légère Signature. I wasn’t always that sure about them. Several years ago I bought a few at the Atlanta Clarinet…
Buffet R13 version of Jeanjean 1 excerpt
It’s interesting playing the same tricky phrase on these two different instruments. I used the exact same mouthpiece/reed setup. In fact I didn’t move the reed at all, since it’s a Legere and doesn’t need to be wet. Though the…
Jeanjean 1 first phrase
Finally got something on video and mp3. Below is the mp3 and video (from different takes) of the first long phrase of Jeanjean 1 from book of 18. I ended up playing it a lot slower than I had planned…
Jeanjean 1
Ok, here goes the first post of many about the Jeanjean Book of 18. I bought a new copy recently since my old one, which I’ve had since High School, was beat up and marked up. I’ve always loved these…
Jeanjean Project
I plan to learn and perform (and video) all 18 études from the book by that name by Paul Jeanjean over the next year. Little is known about Jeanjean. Wikipedia has a tiny “stub” article about him. The most extensive…
Beethoven 6 Tweets from NSO
Here are the Tweets sent out during Beethoven 6th Symphony at the National Symphony Orchestra concert at Wolf Trap last night. (Washington Post introductory article