Klarinet Archive - Posting 000403.txt from 1995/08

From: Alan Saul <saul+@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Dolphy's God Bless the Child
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 17:36:41 -0400

Richard Swan wrote:

>> Hello klarinet list!
>> I was wondering if anyone might know if there is a published copy
>> of Eric Dolphy's version of God Bless the Child (for bass clarinet).
>>[Richard Faria had posted this.]

> I recently saw a copy of it on the Dolphy web page. I came across it by
>searching on "Dolphy" . Made me want a sound card for my PC, as there
>are sound exerpts as well as the transcription.

I'm guessing that you meant Joe Hellerstein's pages (now, they used to live
in Wisconsin) at http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jmh/music.html but you mistook
his transcriptions of Dolphy's solos on Serene and Miss Ann (from Far Cry!)
for God Bless the Child. As far as I know, nobody has put a transcription
of God Bless the Child on the web. As I indicated in a previous message, I
am trying to do so via Thomas Labadorf's transcription. Richard Faria's
intervention has stimulated this to finally happen, I hope.

When I get the file from Richard, I will put it on my pages, accompanied by
the corresponding samples of Eric's playing (sound AND video). So get your
sound card (or, better, a Mac!) and in the meantime check out what's
already up at http://farcry.neurobio.pitt.edu/Discographies/EricDiscog.html
and let me know if you did indeed see God Bless somewhere.

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Alan Saul
saul+@-----.edu