Klarinet Archive - Posting 000156.txt from 1994/11

From: Lorne G Buick - Music TA <lgbuick@-----.CA>
Subj: Re: Some advice on Prokovieff Sextet
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 11:21:47 -0500

On Tue, 8 Nov 1994, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> I was just asked to play the Prokovieff "Overture on Hebrew Themes." I
> know the work well having first played it in the late 1940s after having
> studied it with Dave Weber in NY.
>
> I always played it like the Brahms quintet; i.e., serious music, dignified,
> dull.

Hello? Ummm.... would you care to rephrase that?