Klarinet Archive - Posting 000884.txt from 1998/01

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Concert Band - Favorite Clarinet Parts
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 16:46:15 -0500

Oh boy, there are tons of these! Band pieces, hmmmm.....

Let's see.....something old.....
William Byrd Suite - Gordon Jacob
any or all of the mvts
Music for a Festival - Gordon Jacob
any or all of the mvts
Symphony for Band No. 6 - Persichetti
Fantasies on a Theme of Haydn - Dello Joio
Symphony No. 3 - Giannini
mvt 1 and 4 - but 2 is the best
Symphony for Band - Morton Gould
Marches movement
Dance Rhythms - Wallingford Riegger
Molly on the Shore - Percy Grainger
Spoon River - Grainger
Porgy and Bess Selections - arr. Robert Russell Bennett

something new............or at least within the past 10 years!
Postcards - Tichelli (very difficult)
The Renaisance Fair - Margolis
Of Sailors and Whales - McBeth
Cajun Folksongs - Frank Tichelli

Something Borrowed.......
Italian in Algiers Overture - Rossini/Calliet
Tulsa - Don Gillis
Scotch Strathspey and Reel - Grainger/Osmand
Toccata and Fugue in D minor - Bach/Leidzen

Something Blue...........
Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral - Wagner/Calliet
Irish Tune from County Derry - Grainger
On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss - Holsinger
Amazing Grace - Frank Tichelli
Elegy for a Young American - Ronald Lo Presti

Boy.....it would be hard....there are so many more, and my mind is not
into this stuff.....ask again later or send a personal email, and you will
be deluged with titles!

Roger Garrett
IWU

On Wed, 21 Jan 1998 Gary_VanCott@-----.com wrote:

>
> Last night in the Community College Band (mostly community, hardly any
> college) the clarinetists were complaining about playing yet another piece
> with transcribed violin parts.
>
> The conductor, a trombone player, admitted that he tends to pick out things
> he likes, mostly with great brass parts. So he said, "What do you want to
> play?"
>
> So what do you think. What pieces for concert band have especially
> enjoyable clarinet parts?
>
> One of my own favorites is Suite of Old American Dances, but we played that
> last year.
>
> Gary Van Cott
> Las Vegas, NV
>
>
>

   
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