Klarinet Archive - Posting 000430.txt from 1997/01

From: Frank Garcia <fgarcia@-----.EDU>
Subj: "Minor Composers" was: Wrong clarinet passages
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 12:15:48 -0500

Oh boy...........

I know we don't live in a perfect world. But if I were a "minor" composer,
I would hope that any musician I enlist to play one of my pieces would
approach playing it with the same attention and care that they would
dedicate to a "major" composer's work. There are many pieces by "minor"
composers that would be sorely missed if they were taken away from us. How
many times have we gone to a woodwind quintet concert for example and heard
Bozza, Ibert Milhaud, Malcolm Arnold, as well as Francaix. Are these folks
"minor"? Are Hindemith, Nielsen or Barber, Berio, Villa-Lobos? I dunno.

Frank Garcia

>Francaix is a minor composer who wrote a circus piece of little musical
>value. Do you really want to include that in a discussion that started out
>with Brahms, no matter how far afield it has wandered?
>
>--
>J. Lawrie Bloom
>clarinet and bass clarinet Chicago Symphony Orchestra
>Northwestern University l-bloom@-----.edu