Klarinet Archive - Posting 000145.txt from 1997/03

From: Harlan Harris <hharris@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Maritime Orchestral Music
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 14:49:02 -0500

"Edwin V. Lacy" writes:
>I think the piece you are referring to is by Alan Hovhaness, and is called
>something like, "And God Created Great Whales."

Yes, this is it.

> If the piece is played in
>a place with a good sound system and good acoustics

They redid that hall (UW-Madison, Mills) to improve the acoustics about 8
years after we performed the whale piece...

One of the reasons I wasn't impressed might simply have been that we, the
orchestra, weren't very good...

-Harlan