Klarinet Archive - Posting 000533.txt from 1996/04

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Woodwind anthology
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 16:51:34 -0400

My perspective is that Instrumentalist was not very selective in the
choice of their material for the anthology. I got the real impression
that they were interested in a big book, but necessarily an elegant
book.

They asked me to do a series of articles on repertoire something like
20 years ago and I did about 20 of them. Some were very good. Others
were just so-so. It is hard to keep writing gems. So when they
published mine, they were not selective at all. They just stuck all
the articles that I wrote for them into one volume and the result is
that there are extremes of quality.

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
(leeson@-----.edu)
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