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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000012.txt from 2007/12

From: "HAROLD" <harold@-----.br>
Subj: [DR-L] Speaking with live (and dead) composers?
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:37:53 -0500

Dear List:
I had an unusual experience today of meeting and conversing live with a
composer who wrote a piece I recorded a few weeks ago and which gave me such
anguish ,that it opened a pandorra's box of neuroses I'd thought I'd left
behind.
Very interesting conversation,which the composer seemed to appreciate.
His reasoning behind putting his anxieties and anguishes in his music is
that music today.he claims,is "hiding"from the contemporary chaos by
returning to tonality.
Food for thought?

Which got me to thinking,what would I,as an oboist, query various
composers if they could come back alive?:

To Mozart:"Wolfgang,why did you have to adapt your flute concerto for we
oboists?How about composing a new and different work? "

To Beethoven:"Ludvig, your oboe concerto was lost in a fire .Aren't there
sketches or rough copy available somewhere?"

To Brahms:"Johannes,why the C# to hi C# slur in your first Symphony solo
for oboe.Don't you know it gives the oboist the jitters?"

And so on .
Any one out there in oboe or bassoon cyberspace have a query for a
composer,if we could be bring them back?

Rgds,

Harold Emert
Rio de Janeiro -Brazil

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