Klarinet Archive - Posting 000003.txt from 1997/04

From: Adam Calabrese <adam.calabrese@-----.GOV>
Subj: Re: Still more on Gershwin and glissando -Reply
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 09:57:49 -0500

At 08:31 AM 4/1/97 -0600, I wrote:

(Yes, I know it's sometimes considered bad form to reply to your own
message. Oh well...)

"...and there is a "Song Without Words" by that Mendelssohn fellow..."

Seems there were more composers of Song(s) Without Words. Holst had it for
a title in his Suite No 2 for band. I love those Holst pieces, I'm suprised
I forgot that earlier. Did P I Tchiakovsky write a Song Without Words also?

OK, enough rambling. sorry for the tangent.

-Adam Calabrese
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899