Klarinet Archive - Posting 000522.txt from 1997/01

From: Steve Senderoff/Trisha Vierling <steve@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: WW quintets
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 11:40:44 -0500

At the risk of going out to the other end of the bell curve, I truly love
the sound of the WW quintet. Certainly, music of the stature (whatever that
means??) of Beethoven's late string quartets has not been written for the
WW quintet, but the existing literature is filled with tiny gems...examples
imho include Milhaud's La Cheminee du Roi Renee, Persichetti's Pastorale,
Barber's Summer Music, Nielsen's Quintet (the final variation in the last
movement is worth the price of admission imho...simple and moving),
Hindemith...etc etc...

I am particularly attracted to the lack of homogenous instrumental timbre
in the quintet....when you combine various proportions (in various
registers) of airy, nasal, flatulent, cheeky but round,
brassy-but-mellow??...you get some really cool sounds!!!

My clarinet days ended many years ago as a student at Northwestern in the
mid 70's (Marcellus said he's love to take me on through the NU school of
music applied program but couldn't since I was a chemistry major, and it
was getting time to stop fighting the seemingly inevitable drift away from
music to the green fields of New Jersey and the pharmaceutical industry, a
"decision" I still regret). I am now an evening and weekend acoustic
guitarist-banjoist-fiddler. The WW quintet reminds me of my old-time
appalachian string band, consisting of two singers, two fiddles, banjo(me),
guitar and string bass...almost an endless palette of tone colors waiting
to be combined in somewhat "low powered" but pleasing music...musical and
emotional adventures waiting to happen...:)

Dr. Galvan..are you there??...we played under Begian for a bit at U of I in
the late 70's...

best wishes, steve senderoff

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Steve Senderoff............Trish Vierling
Steve@-----.com

"...Ya run your E string down oh, I don't know, about three frets...anyway,
it corresponds to the third note on the A string...here's ya tuning..."
.........Tommy Jarrell