Klarinet Archive - Posting 000997.txt from 1997/08

From: Floyd Williams <f.williams@-----.au>
Subj: Re: Freedom To Trash Pop Music
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 17:35:45 -0400

pharmacy wrote:
>
> If we can't trash the trash music here, where most everyone is sure to
> understand, where can we let off steam? Not at work for me, where most
> of my co-workers prefer to listen to metallic something-or-other (at
> least it sounds like two unlike metals banging together.) Even if the
> lyrics are the most poetic in the world, which I highly doubt, I do not
> care to listen to a raspy voice with a 5-note range and a backup group
Carol, the piece by Shostakovich is the Romance from "The Gadfly". It
is published for clarinet and piano by Fentone.

Floyd Williams

> Now for a musical question: several years ago there was a series on PBS
> called "Reilly: Ace of Spies". This had as its theme song a lovely waltz
> by Stravinsky. Can anyone give me the name of the waltz and the name of
> a CD containing it? Thanks! Oops, I meant TIA.
>
> Carol

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Floyd Williams
Queensland Conservatorium-Griffith University