Klarinet Archive - Posting 000767.txt from 1996/02

From: Hollis Carmouche <hollis@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: Real music? Anti music
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 16:23:56 -0500

At 10:19 PM 2/24/96 -0500, you wrote:
>The following appeared in my mailbox:
>
>> The listserve is to discuss clarinet related items.
>
>Well, yes, and presumably the listserv of 70 years ago would have decried
>the discussion of jazz, as it didn't relate to the clarinet and real
>music. Today we need to have that discussion to understand the influences
>on Copland in his Clarinet Concerto (to use just one KLARINET related
>example).

No, I disagree with this. Clarinets were used a great deal in jazz, more
then than even now. Clarinets are NOT used in rap.