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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000091.txt from 2006/10

From: "Pat McFarland" <dblereed@-----.com>
Subj: [DR-L] A teaser for a new thread that may be fun! I have more if this catches on, gang!
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:42:31 -0400


Gang,
Here's a very humorous review of our "Planets" concert last week.
Perhaps many of you'll have similar reviews to share with the crowd. Read
on:

"Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age" includes a notable role for the rarely-used
bass oboe. Patrick McFarland moaned on the instrument and made it sound like
a big, sad duck, alone on a placid lake. Soon a giant clock starts ticking
in the sky, counting down the seconds till, in a section marked "animato,"
any sense of lucidity and reason are beyond reach, and the music slips into
pleasantly dissonant dementia.

I especially like the dimentia part!!!

Patrick McFarland, English horn & Oboe
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

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