Klarinet Archive - Posting 000960.txt from 1998/01

From: Jennifer Rose McKenna <jrm0013@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Concert Band - Favorite Clarinet Parts
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 20:05:29 -0500

when i was in hs i played another piece by dello joio that had an interesting yet repetative
clarinet part..and for the life of me can not remember it i love it very much...help me
out..can anybody recall what the title would be?

jennifer mckenna
jrm0013@-----.edu
university of north texas
clarinet concentration/music ed major

On Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:46:15 -0600 (CST) Roger Garrett
<rgarrett@-----.edu> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >