Klarinet Archive - Posting 001194.txt from 1997/08

From: maybe Starr/maybe John <starrs@-----.net>
Subj: Composers
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 03:11:59 -0400

Thought all ( or at least most) of you would enjoy this.

Regards,
Starr

> A COMPOSER MAKES HIMSELF PERFECTLY GLIERE
>
> You can Telemann by where he likes to live. I just Toch a trip Orff into
> one of the Wilder areas Faure Wieck, and to be Verdi Franck, it nearly
> drove Menotti.
>
> I know opinion Varese, but even Vivaldi urban noises, the Bizet traffic,
> De Falla engines, as well as knowing there are Mennin the streets Callas
> enough to knock your Bloch off, I couldn't resist the urge to Galuppi
> home early Satie, and I Haieff to say I Still prefer the Mitropoulos.
> The Boyce were Sor that I had Gibbons up and succumbed to the Riegger of
> the Field so easily, but I don't give a Schutz.
>
> I was practically Krein from my Severacs and Pains brought on by that
> brief time in the countryside! Even the sounds got my Dandrieu up; let
> me Liszt some of them: the Rorem of the wind, a constant Birtwhistle, the
> Menuhin of the Katz, the Lipatti-Patti-Glinka-Poulenc of the Reiner on
> the roof, the Gluck-Gluck of the hens, and every morning a woodpecker or
> some Byrd Chopin holes in a Tree. My only company was a Thorne Busch, a
> Partch of poison Ives, a Braun Babbit, and sometimes a Wolf, nothing
> Moore. For a Forrest Grainger it may be Fine - it may be the Katz
> Milhaud - but I could have died of Borodin. A friend suggested my making
> this Tureck; "Abegg" his pardon, but I will never go Bach to those
> Gotterdammerung Hillis. They Suk!
>
> No, I don't care for the Ruggles life. I like a good Mehul - a little
> Suppe, some Szigeti, maybe some Salome at my local Taverner with a little
> lime Schubert after (even if they don't always clear the Crumbs off the
> table. And I like to Locatelli while I'm Eaton Maderna at night. Is
> that asking for Egk in Meyerbeer? Nono! So many people Berio themselves
> under a Holst of problems they know they can't Handel. Their answer is
> too Offenbach to nature - into Haydn, it seems to me. I Karajan a d'Indy
> life in the Berg for the most Pa"rt. Maybe it isn't Perle Bliss for
> everybody, but it's Godunov for me.

   
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