Carl Rosman

@carlrosman

Unquestionably one of the clarinettists of his generation. Suddenly father of two. As surprised as you are. www.carlrosman.com

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Carl Rosman@carlrosman· Jul 14

Can such things be

Book cover
Roald Dahl
James and the Giant Peach
“The Scented Peach Edition”

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· Jul 10

Well fancy that!

Early Michelin poster featuring the Michelin Man standing at table to give a toast, raising in his right hand a glass containing a horseshoe, a broken bottle, a bent nail, and various other things over which no sane person would wish to drive. His left hand, not raised, holds a lit cigar.

Text:

Nunc est bibendum
“À VOTRE SANTÉ”
LE PNEU MICHELIN BOIT L’OBSTACLE

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· Jul 10

No but holy crap this is good.

CD cover: Belcea Quartet on EMI playing the Bartók string quartets.

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· Jul 8

Map of Baden-Baden showing the Oos river.

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· Jul 4

And if you’re looking for a music pairing for Isle of Raasay single malt, etc

CD cover: Birtwistle Gawain. François Le Roux holds John Tomlinson’s green severed head aloft while it sings to him. As one does.

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· Jul 4

If you’re looking for a whisky pairing for Birtwistle, you could do a lot worse than this.

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· Jul 3

I’m getting various problems viewing them too… not an unusual Bluesky hiccup, it seems 🤷‍♂️

Painting of reclining Alma Mahler by Kokoschka. Blotchy. Mostly blues and greens except for her half-smiling face and alarmingly extensive décolleté.

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· Jul 3

I’ll say this now then!

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· Jul 1

Surprise bonus in a second-hand score of Stravinsky’s Threni I bought a little while back…

Hawkes Pocket Score of Strawinsky (sic) Threni. Held in front by my left thumb: an RFH rehearsal pass for Mr Andrew Porter, London Philharmonic Orchestra, 6–7 pm, 2.6.59.

HAWKES POCKET SCORES
IGOR STRAWINSKY
THRENI

ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL
General Manager: T. E. Bean, C.B.E.
REHEARSAL PASS
(at Artists' Entrance only)
Name. MR. ANDREW PORTER
Date...
2.6.59.
Morning or
Afternoon
6-7 pm
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LTD
Signed by R. Je…something something
For Promoter.
SEE CONDITIONS OVERLEAF

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· Jun 30

Here Harry is telling me that the drift towards Mahler 9 at the end is deliberate.

A bespectacled chap with a mop of white hair talking to a slightly younger bespectacled chap with a mop of greying hair. Both are holding Kölsch glasses. There is dark wood panelling and a lighter wooden table. A napkin reveals that they are at Früh.

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· Jun 30

In case anyone else was wondering

Nancy: I can’t wait to get home for supper tonight
N: We’re having my favorite meal, SHISH KEBAB
N: I’m home, Aunt Fritzi
N: Is the shish kebab ready?
Aunt Fritzi: I changed my mind—we’re not going to have shish kebab tonight
N: (crying) But you promised me shish kebab
AF: Okay, okay—just give me a few minutes
AF: Here—you can pretend this is shish kebab
AF: It’s spaghetti and meat balls
(AF produces two enormous skewers, meat balls are impaled thereupon, spaghetti is wrapped around them. N grins broadly.)

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· Jun 27

Fuminaro’s letter to the director of the Cultural Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Office:

Fuminaro’s letter:

Dear Sir:
Mr Benjamin Britten's composition is so very different from the anticipation of the Committee which had hoped to receive from a friendly nation felicitations expressed in musical form on the 2,6ooth anniversary of the founding of the Japanese Empire.
We are afraid that the composer must have greatly misunderstood our desire or that we did not understand each other fully enough.
It seems to us that this is a composition in the nature of a Requiem Symphony' composed in memory of the composer's own parents and does not express felicitations for the 2,6o0th anniversary of our country.
Besides being purely a religious music of Christian nature, it has melancholy tone both in its melodic pattern and rhythm making it unsuitable for performance on such an occasion as our national ceremony.
We are puzzled and should like to ask that you make further inquiry in this matter. Meanwhile the Committee will hold Mr Britten's composition.
Yours very truly,
PRINCE FUMINARO KONOYE
President.
Committee for the 26ooth Anniversary.

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· Jun 26

A lot of popes here

67% Woke 33% Chud
36% Techbro 64% Neo-Luddite
67% Hopepilled 33% Doomer
73% Davos 27% Dubai
YOUR CLOSEST MATCH:
Pope Leo XIV

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· Jun 22

SQUEALS OF ANTICIPATION

Screenshot of email:

Vous pouvez suivre à tout moment l'évolution de votre commande dans votre espace personnel :
https://espacepersonnel.bnf.fr/
Nous vous remercions de votre confiance,
Le service Clients

[The Bibliothèque nationale de France is cooking up a research copy for me of something lovely and juicy]

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· Jun 21

In yesterday’s gig I only needed my B♭ clarinet. In tomorrow’s I need… a bit more.

An E♭ clarinet, a B♭ clarinet, a soprano saxophone, a baritone saxophone, a bass clarinet, and a contrabass clarinet.

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· Jun 21

Yup

Today
20°
33°

Mon
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Tue
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Wed
21°
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Thu
22°
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Fri
24°
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Sat
24°
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Sun
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Mon
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Carl Rosman@carlrosman· Jun 13

Here’s the start. Last movement.

Sheet music. Orchestral score. Passacaglia bass pizzicato in cellos and basses. Sparse accompaniment from timps and violas. Rehearsal figure 125 at top of page.

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· Jun 13

Mais, mice, ah what a Schenkelklopfer, yes I’m just jealous I didn’t think of it.

A packet of Maisstangen, with a pair of mice on the front.

Don’t know what those are called in English. Puffed corn sticks?

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· Jun 12

Ich habe einige in Berlin gefunden. Z.B. Schostakowitsch/Kondraschin. Wahrscheinlich bei da capo in der Kastanienallee. Auch lange her. (Wobei… diese sind alle Russisch/Englisch. Vielleicht doch anderswo gefunden. Aber irgendwas habe ich sicher von da capo.)

Melodiya LPs. Shostakovich 8, 14, 15, 3, 6.

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· Jun 11

No but holy crap this is good.

CD booklet.

GUSTAV
MAHLER
СИМФОНИЯ
No. 5
Дирижер
Кирилл
КОНДРАШИН

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· Jun 10

Trying to work out why Boulez wrote a G# so close to an A♭

Sheet music. The passage in question goes G# B♭ A♭ C.

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· Jun 9

Sheet music: a piece for clarinet in A entitled Chant funéraire, number VII of a collection, pretty much all in slowish crotchets (one per second), slurred, over increasingly improbable intervals.

Bit of a lungbuster, basically.

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· Jun 1

Today’s office

A church. Lovely sandstone, four rectangular panels on the front topped by surprisingly equilateral triangles and above all that a pointy tower on the left.

Inside. Stained-glass windows, a thing underneath with lots of gold and panels that open out which I was about to call a triptych but there are far too many panels for that, and a bit of percussion, with two big gongs and a bass drum.

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· May 30

So of course I went and hunted down a copy, didn’t I

(An ‘exercice de style’ from the 1947 edition that Queneau later rejected)

EXERCICES DE STYLE

RÉACTIONNAIRE

Naturellement l'autobus était à peu près complet, et le receveur désagréable. L'origine de tout cela, il faut la rechercher dans la journée de huit heures et les projets de nationalisation.
Et puis les Français manquent d'organisation et de sens civique; sinon, il ne serait pas nécessaire de leur distribuer des numéros d'ordre pour prendre l'autobus — ordre est bien le mot.
Ce jour-là, nous étions bien dix à attendre sous un soleil écrasant et lorsque l'autobus arriva,

…

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· May 29

Warning sign in French: Danger sol glissant.

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· May 27

No, really, it’s true. About the solo part, I mean. About my rates, I can think of an excellent way for you to find out.

A page of sheet music in what in retrospect is perhaps slightly juvenile handwriting although not too bad for 18 and definitely with more cues than I often have to cope with. Heading top left is CLARINET CONCERTO, top right is THEA MUSGRAVE. Footer reads “solo clarinet (B♭)”.

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· May 22

Actually this seems like a perfect example of why Grimes is (IMO) so amazing. If Britten really did extrapolate Now the Great Bear and Pleiades from this then he's not a magpie, he's a ducking alchemist.

A page from Verdi's Otello, showing Otello singing a throwaway line about the setting Pleiades to a held high E while the strings hold an octave above him.

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· May 22

I didn’t know Dudamel played the… oh wait

she
Grammerhen
PROKOFIEV
Peter and the Wolf
Narrated by Viola Davis

Gustavo Dudamel, Viola
Davis & Los Angeles
Philharmonic
Hi-Res
AUDIO

(DG CD, I have left the text as the scanner saw it)

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· May 22

What fresh hell is this

I just wanted a Pimm’s recipe but this site is showing me a photo of someone sticking their foot in a glass of brownish-yellow liquid and frankly I’m just not thirsty any more

Carl Rosman@carlrosman· May 22

Yep.