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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000051.txt from 2008/04
From: "Kevin H. Moore" <oboetools@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Re: Fireworks Music
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:15:50 -0400
Apologies. Apparently, it's still an annual tradition.
I'm not sure how I (and at least a few others) got the impression that it
wasn't still an annual thing.
Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin H. Moore" <oboetools@-----.net>
To: <doublereed@-----.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 22:17 Hrs
Subject: Re: [DR-L] Re: Fireworks Music
> An amazing performance, if not a perfect one.
>
> The camera angle used for the contrabassoon at the beginning of the return
> to the slower section somehow made me feel like I'd been forced to retreat
> up a tree by a moose. LOL
>
> I really love the contrabassoon; this former version looks like it was
> nearly half bocal.
>
> Regarding your question about the IDRS, the answer is yes. It used to be
an
> annual tradition. I played in 1986 and loved it. I believe we had 27
oboes,
> 24 bassoons and 6 contrabassoons.
>
> I hope the IDRS hasn't abandoned the idea of full-sized performances at
> future conferences.
>
> Kevin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Oboeeee@-----.com>
> To: <oboetools@-----.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 20:49 Hrs
> Subject: [DR-L] Re: Fireworks Music
>
>
> > Dear Kevin,
> >
> > Thanks for this video. Very grand, indeed! Can the Atlanta Baroque
> > Orchestra afford it at the moment...no. Fundraisers always dream. Am
I
> correct in
> > saying that this piece was at one time traditionally the grand finale
of
> > EVERY IDRS convention?
> >
> > Janie
> >
> > *Very moving performance on 23 August 1991 of Handels Music for the
Royal
> > Fireworks by a huge baroque band on period instruments, consisting of
24
> oboes,
> > 16 bassoons, 1 contra-bassoon, 9 trumpets, 9 horns, 3 pairs of timpani
> and 5
> > drums, conducted by Robert King.
> >
> >
> >
> > How'd you like to have the job of being the one to find the cash to pay
> for
> > it? I'd think this would be very expensive in the US.
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXjY6w1KQMo&feature=related
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> >
> >
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