Klarinet Archive - Posting 000592.txt from 1997/10

From: Antoine T Clark <s2atclar@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Elie Seigmiester
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 16:19:24 -0400

Mr. Leupold thanks for the suggestion. I am only a second year student. I
did not have the time to look up all the sources that you mentioned in
your sincere but sarcastic reply. Either answer the question that I posted
at an earlier date or don't reply at all. I read this digest to learn more
about the clarinet and clarinet literature, not to have unmeaningful
arguments with know-it-all idiots.

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ANTOINE CLARK
s2atclar@-----.edu
Virginia Commonwealth
Univ.

On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Neil Leupold wrote:

> 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.
>
>