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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000054.txt from 2003/07

From: "Harry Searing" <hsearing@-----.net>
Subj: [DR-L] RE: Copland
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:20:15 -0400

> Has Copland written any bassoon music?

There's no original solo music by him, but Boosey & Hawkes did publish a
volume of "hits" arranged for bassoon and piano, in celebration of his
100th birthday in 2000. You have to buy the solo part and piano part
individually. That was not my original intention when I was with the
company and first developed the idea. I wanted it to be just like the
Bernstein album for bassoon, but them somebody there after me was
thinking too hard about print costs, etc.

Harry Searing

(PS, BTW and IMHO, the Bernstein album is A LOT better. His music is
better suited overall towards arrangements for a solo instrument and
piano. SIMPLE SONG from the Mass is great. As are most of the other
tunes in the Bernstein album. The Copland stuff doesn't work as well.)