Klarinet Archive - Posting 000263.txt from 1995/01

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fredj@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Brahmsian Verse
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 23:55:05 -0500

Steve,
WOW!! That's something else. I needed that laugh after a rough
day. Thanks. Anyone out there know enuf German to translate that? If
so, please put it on the KLARINET. I'm sure lots of us non-speakers
would be fascinated.

Fred Jacobowitz

On Mon, 16 Jan 1995, Steven Popper wrote:

> I currently have 462 backlogged messages in my "klarinet" holding
> file, so I will refrain from commenting on current discussions until I am
> properly caught up. However, I found something yesterday that I thought I
> would share with the 'net.
>
> I was poking through the bin of pretty well beat up sheet music in
> a used book store when I ran across the following:
>
> "Johannes Brahms' Klarinetten Quintett", by Chilean poet, Totila Albert
> (1892-1967). It was a large size booklet, in the sheet music bin because
> it indeed reproduces the melody line from the entire work albeit, broken
> up into musical "phrases" which are arrayed spacially on the page with
> space between the phrases. What Albert then did was to use the music as a
> setting for his poetry. For instance, "Satz 3" begins as follows:
>
> Nimmt etwa dich heute Gott zu dich
>
> hast du Ewigkeit genug fur seine Lust am Ich?
>
> Uber kurz oder lang bist du Stimme in dem vaeterlichen
>
> Liebesgesang!
>
> Warum ich? Hab ich denn solche Lust am Ich
>
> dass ich hoffen koennte darum naehm mich Gott zu sich?...
>
> --- from "Johannes Brahms' Klarinetten Quintett", by
> Totila Albert, copyright 1967 by Claudio Naranjo,
> Berkeley, CA.
>
> You get the idea. (Hum the opening theme of the Quintet's third
> movement to yourself. You will finde that it scans properly.) I have
> reproduced the spacial order. The music is written out above each
> separate phrase.
>
> This clearly opens up a whole new field of endeavor for members of
> the List and the wider clarinet community. Might it not be possible, for
> example, to take the Mozart quintet, set the music into a series of
> recitative and arias, and thus produce an entirely new opera? ("La Clemenza
> di Buffet"? "Abduction from the Reed Wizard"?) The mind fairly reels at
> the vistas suddenly vouched us safe. An epic oratorio derived from
> several carefully chosen Rose studies? I don't know about you all, but
> I'll get little or no work done this day!
>
> Steven W. Popper
> RAND Corporation
>

   
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