Klarinet Archive - Posting 000914.txt from 1998/01

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Adagio for clarinet choir
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 23:20:46 -0500

There are many arrangments of Adagio for Strings by Barber for Clarinet
Choir, but none of them, to my knowlege, are by Barber himself. I am
quite certain the announcer made a mistake.

Roger Garrett

On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Edinger/Gilman wrote:

> I heard a personal first today: Barber's Adagio for Strings performed
> by a clarinet choir, Richard Stolzman principal. The announcer said it
> was an arrangement approved by Barber himself. Very Stolzmanesque, in
> his more subdued mode (i.e., subdued vibrato), and very beautifully
> performed.
>
> Bill E.
>