Klarinet Archive - Posting 000568.txt from 1997/10

From: Neil Leupold <nleupold@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Elie Seigmiester
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 23:58:37 -0400

On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Fred Jacobowitz wrote:

> Antoine,
> Rather than rehash a very strongly-worded reply You can, I'm
> sure, look under my name in the Klarinet archives to see what THAT was
> about), PLEASE do some basic research and look in either: Baker's Musical
> Biographies, Groves, Who's Who in Music or just a decent book on American
> 20th-C. music. Siegmeister isn't some unknown 15th-C. monk.

Ah, yes, answering a sincere request with a sarcastic snub, and then
failing to lend any actual information per the original question. If
Seigmeister is such an "obvious" musical figure (I've never heard of him
myself), wouldn't it be nicer to say, "Seigmeister is such & such a
composer who...(etc.) and, you'll doubtless find further good information
about him in so & so common musical reference books" ? Perhaps the small
bit of information you might have provided would be exactly what Antoine
was looking for, and then he would be at liberty later to search more
deeply from more authoritative sources if it were necessary. Just a
thought.