Klarinet Archive - Posting 000263.txt from 1998/01

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Hindemith Quintet
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:19:07 -0500

The first time I played the work, something struck me as very
strange about the first and last movements. I couldn't put
my finger on it. And then it hit me. The two movements are
absolutely backwards, and for all five players, too!! I don't
know how difficult that it to do, and the effect leaves me
cold musically, but it must be extraordinarily difficult to
compose such a thing that works from A-Z just as well as from
Z-A.

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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