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Klarinet Archive - Posting 000073.txt from 1994/04

From: "Robert S. Spring" <ierss@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Verdi
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 13:11:17 -0400

At the risk of going out on a limb on this list, (the last time I did was
about making one's own reeds and I still have the nail marks in my hands!),
the Rigoletto Variations are still published by Carl Fischer for clarinet
and piano. There is an excellent band arrangment by R. Mark Rogers. he
works for Southern Music but it is published by him.

I did a commercial recording of this work for clarinet and band
accompaniment that will be released in 2 weeks on Summit records on a
recording called "Dragons Tongue", a whole CD of virtuoso, double and
triple tongued and circular breathed pieces for clarinet and wind band
accompaniment. I had a wonderful time recording it and feel that if it is
technique for technique's sake, I am guilty as charged. As a University
Professor, and one who has recorded several new works for the clarinet with
great reviews, I guess that I am about "as current as the dodo bird".
Sorry Dan Lesson but I really have to argue the point on this one. These
works are part of our heritage as clarinetists, are fun to perform, people
love to hear them and they are really damn hard! I encourage my students
to learn them, to listen to them, and perform them, as well as music by
Mozart, Brahms, Bassett and Tower. I think that we are trying to be the
best well rounded musicians and performer possible!

>Though the submitter of the question having to do with Verdi's Rigoletto
>was not specific enough, I think that it was referencing a work called
>the Rigoletto Fantasy (not at all by Verdi). If this a correct assumption,
>the work has not been published for years and years. I doubt if one could
>buy a new copy, but perhaps I am just out of it.
>
>What is it that you wanted to know about the work? The history of this
>kind of music (variations of ever increasing complexity or a series of
>extremely overornamented melodies from a single work and strung together
>like beads on a necklace) is interesting but about as current as the dodo
>bird. How long has it been since you heard a performance of the Bride
>of The Waves for Cornet and Band? It is the same historical period.
>
>====================================
>Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
>(leeson@-----.edu)
>====================================

>I have a photocopy of the Verdi Rigeletto that was used as an study piece
>in my undergraduate program. The copy list the copyright date as in the
>1920's or 30's (I forgot to bring it with me to the computer) but the
>publisher has been cut off. Does anyone know anything about this piece?
>I would like to get a new copy but I'm afraid it isn't published anymore.
>
>Kory Vrieze
>University of South Dakota

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School of Music
Arizona State University
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