Klarinet Archive - Posting 000512.txt from 1997/01

From: Everett Austin <austine@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Wrong clarinet passages
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 08:40:32 -0500

I would suggest listening to Philippe Cuper's recording of this piece
with the composer conducting before condemning it as musically without
value. Also, the contention that French music is emotionally shallow
because it has an apparent lightness is invalid, I believe, and Poulenc
once addressed this by pointing out that French music can address the
full scope of human emotions without tying itself to the heavy overt
seriousness of much German music.

Everett Austin

On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, J. Lawrie Bloom
wrote:

> >The Francaix Clarinet Concerto would be easier on the A clarinet too. Ah,
> >but be wrote it for the Bb now didn't he. ;)
> >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
>

   
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