Klarinet Archive - Posting 000081.txt from 1994/10

From: "Robert S. Spring" <ierss@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: BBC Music Mag has clarinet CD
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 12:03:25 -0400

I had a student lok up the words once.....he found them in a book of
English Folk songs. The title of the book is Folk Song in
England....unfortunately, he copied the pages but no other information.
Sorry, pretty generic title!

On another topic, the ICA conference will be held here in Tempe, AZ next
summer. I hope all on this list will attend. The artist roster is almost
in place and will prove to be both exciting and entertaining. We will also
have sessions on pedagogy, mouthpiece design and music medicine!

July 12-16, 1995, Tempe, AZ

>The latest issue of the BBC Music Magazine, which is packaged with
>a CD or tape of classical music each month, has an all-clarinet&piano
>collection this time around (October 1994). Jonathan Cohler
>is playing both Brahms sonatas, along with the Vaughan Williams
>"Six Studies in English Folksong" and Milhaud's "Duo Concertant."
>
>The notes on this recording correct a wrong impression I had
>about the Vaughan Williams work. According to this, the
>short movements ARE each based on a specific folksong.
>I had thought these pieces were the result of Vaughan Williams
>trying to create original melodies with the character of
>collected melodies.
>
>Here's the titles attributed to each movement:
>
> 1) "Lovely on the water"
> 2) "Spurn Point"
> 3) "Van Dieman's Land"
> 4) "She borrowed some of her mother's gold"
> 5) "The Lady and the Dragoon"
> 6) "As I walked over London Bridge"
>
>Does anyone know a source of more background on these pieces
>from 1926? I'll have to look for the original songs as well.
>
>P.S. No, I haven't had a chance to listen to this CD yet.
>
>--James Langdell jamesc@-----.com
> Sun Microsystems Menlo Park, Calif.

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