Klarinet Archive - Posting 000155.txt from 1996/05

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: A promise is a promise
Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 11:05:01 -0400

> From: MX%"hutchill@-----.03
> Subj: Re: Penance!!!

> Dear Dan,
>
> The Schindelmeisser concerto was published by Musica Rara in an edition with
> piano reduction. It has been recorded By Dieter Koecker, Waldemar Wandel and
> two of Kloecker's students (Guido Steir or Michael Heitzler and Heide Huber
> I think). The work also gets a mention in Jo Rees- Davies' chapter on the
> development of the clarinet repertoire in the new "Cambridge Companion to
> the Clarinet" edited by Colin Lawson. (an excellent book, incidentally).
> That should be enough convincing references to claim your prize.
>
> There are plenty of Mc Donalds "restaurants" in Melbourne if you would like
> to make the trip!
>
> Craig Hill,
> Melbourne Symphony, Australia
>

By any chance, does the beef for the McDonalds' hamburgers in Melbourne
come from the UK??? In that case, one runs the risk of mad-clarinet-player
disease!!

But no one has the complete orchestral parts but me!!

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