Klarinet Archive - Posting 000535.txt from 1995/09

From: Lisa Clayton <clayton@-----.EDU>
Subj: Raymond Scott
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 14:35:29 -0400

> I listened with fascination to a several minute review of
> Raymond Scott's music (promo for a new CD of his compositions?) on the CBC
> Sunday Morning radio program yesterday. Very interesting. Is anyone familiar
> with his work? Anyone know if there is anything of Scott's for a small
> woodwind group? Or, for clarinet?
> [Who was Raymond Scott? Foolish question. He wrote the music for Bugs Bunny
> and Daffy Duck cartoons.]
> -victor

"The Music of Raymond Scott: Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights"
(Columbia CK53028) is the only Raymond Scott CD I know of. If you
hunt REALLY hard, you can get his older records on vinyl or 78, assuming
you can play them. I've never been able to find sheet music or charts
for anything he wrote, except for fake book type charts for
"Toy Trumpet." His "quintette" consisted of piano, trumpet, clarinet,
tenor sax, bass & drums.

BTW, he wrote lots of music for Warner Bros studios, but it was the lunatic
genius of Carl Stalling that put it together for the cartoons. He didn't
have much to say about it, but it did keep his great music alive for many
decades. "The Carl Stalling Project" CD is worth getting if you love
those old Warners cartoons.

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