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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000003.txt from 2007/07

From: herb fawcett <herbgosia@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] South American baroque music
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:26:43 -0400

Right you are: Roger Wiesmeyer. Played with him a few times and was always
impressed with his musicality. Failing to remember his name is solely a
function of my degenerating brain cells.
Herb

On 7/1/07 2:11 PM, "jake vidourek" <jmvidourek21@-----.com> wrote:

> Herb,
> Sounds like the Ob/EH-ist you describe is Roger
> Wiesmeyer. He's a great EH player - I got hear him
> quite a bit in Mahler 2 (Resurrection) two seasons
> ago.
>
> Jake
> --- herb fawcett <herbgosia@-----.net> wrote:
>
>> Harold,
>> There is a Latin American Baroque chamber music
>> society in the SF Bay area;
>> I have played a couple of concerts with them. I
>> loved the music, although
>> most of the stuff on the concerts I played was
>> primarily vocal. It was
>> definitely Brazilian in flavor, and featured such
>> styles as modinho and
>> choros. Just offhand, I cannot remember the name of
>> the oboist who was
>> involved, but he now plays EH in one of the larger
>> orchestras in Tennessee.
>> I knew him here in SF as a terrific oboist and a
>> fine pianist, and a
>> graduate from Curtis while Schoenbach was still
>> teaching there. I was
>> pleasantly surprised by the instrumental music as it
>> was definitely baroque,
>> but had an unmistakable and unique SA character.
>> More and more things drop
>> from quick memory, and the composers' names are
>> among them. Our stuff
>> included two clarinets, two bassoons, a horn or two
>> and two trumpets. The
>> rest was either fretted strings and /or piano with
>> voice. Very lovely.
>> I don't know what sort of search would get you to
>> the group.
>> Best,
>> Herb
>>
>>
>> On 6/30/07 7:09 PM, "HAROLD" <harold@-----.br>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jon
>>> Good query which I can only answer from a scant
>> knowledge of so-called
>>> Brazilian Baroque which up to know displays
>> clarinets instead of oboes being
>>> used in the works of a composer who studied with
>> Haydn and was called Padre
>>> Mauricio. Am seeking more info myself on this
>> subject as 2008 will bring in
>>> 200 years commemorating the arrival of the
>> Portuguese Royal family and
>>> emperoro in Brazil.
>>> Indeed the Brazilian Baroque seems like many
>> things out here to come later
>>> than other parts of the world.
>>> Rgds.
>>>
>>> harold emert
>>> rio-brazil
>>>
>>> "Jon Halvor Lund" <jonhalvorlund@-----.com>
>>> To: <doublereed@-----.org>
>>> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 5:10 PM
>>> Subject: [DR-L] South American baroque music
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hello, everybody.
>>>> I'm principal bassoonist of an orchestra that may
>> have a possibility to
>>>> send a group of 5-6 musicians to a festival of
>> South American baroque
>>>> music in Bolivia next year. But the subject of
>> South American baroque
>>>> music is quite new to most of us, and I would
>> like to get in touch with
>>>> someone who has gone into this subject. The
>> festival is based upon the
>>>> music that Spanish jesuit missionaries brought
>> with them to South America
>>>> in the renaissance and baroque eras. So, if
>> anyone on this list feels that
>>>> they know something useful about repertoire
>> (preferably including
>>>> prominent bassoon parts...) I would be very
>> interested to get in touch.
>>>>
>>>> Jon Halvor Lund
>>>> Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, Norway
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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> Jacob M. Vidourek
> Student
> Tennessee Technological University
> Cookeville, TN
> Music Performance and Pedagogy Major (oboe)
> German Major
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