Klarinet Archive - Posting 000150.txt from 1996/05

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: Penance!!!
Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 02:19:56 -0400

Because I screwed up so badly with Samuel Taylor Coleridge vs Samuel Coleridge
Taylor, I will make a gift to all the members of this group by mentioning that
in this months donation of my clarinet music collection is one of the rarest
and most delightful works for clarinet I ever heard. And if anyone out there
can say (with truth, honesty, cross-your-heart, etc.) that you know of this
work, I will buy that person a 1/4 pounder with cheese, a large order of fries,
and a diet coke.

I am donating the complete orchestral parts, plus the four solo parts, plus
the conductor's score to the concerto for 4 clarinets and orchestra by
Ludwig Schindelmeisser, a contemporary of Beethoven. I know you never heard
of him, but that is not necessarily a condemnation.

It is a WONDERFUL work and I offer this information as penance for mixing
up Coleridge with Taylor (or was it Taylor with Coleridge, I forget).

This work has special meaning for me because the first time I heard it,
I fell so in love with it that I wrote my very first article about the
clarinet and its repertoire. Has to be 25 years ago. And it was damn near
impossible to locate the full orchestral parts.

I think that I probably have the only set in the US, and in a few weeks it
will be at the clarinet library. Cost me a fortune, too.

Is that enough penance or do I have to tell you about the quintet for
bass clarinet and string quartet, too?

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