Klarinet Archive - Posting 000268.txt from 1998/01

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Hindemith Quintet
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:19:12 -0500

Interesting.....I wondered about the Quintet. The Septet must have been
the same thought! The 2nd and 4th movements are exactly retrograde also.
This piece by Hindemith is for standard woodwind quintet plus trumpet and
bass clarinet. We will be performing it in another month or so.

Roger Garrett
IWU

On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> 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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