I didn't see the Mahler 7 telecast. It was one of those "practice a few hours, watch Mahler & Clevenger, get to bed before 3 a.m.--pick any two" nights. Mahler and Clevenger lost.
When I heard him play the Konzertstuck at the IHS workshop in Bloomington in 1972, he played a Paxman compensating triple. I've seen him play the same horn, or a very close facsimile, on TV before. I remember a Bolero in particular. This horn looks very much like a B-flat/F alto descant. It may well not be the horn he played in the Mahler 7th. The Konzertstuck almost didn't happen because Mrs. Clevenger was in labor with their first child. He literally walked into the hall carrying his horn case about five minutes before the performance started, with the audience assembled and warned that there might well be no performance at all. Not only is it hard for me to believe that I heard Clevenger at what was then "early" in his career with the CSO, but it's even harder to think that this girl (it was a girl) is long since an adult. I'm glad it's the kids who are getting older, and not me and Clevenger! <VBG> Howard Sanner [email protected] _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
