Klarinet Archive - Posting 001011.txt from 1998/01

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: favorite band pieces
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 19:50:09 -0500

Which reminds me of a Clarinet Choir piece.....called Immovable Do by
Percy Grainger. He wrote the band work so that you could extract a
clarinet choir or a saxophone choir to stand by itself. We have done this
one....and it is good!

Roger Garrett
IWU

On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Edinger/Gilman wrote:

> One more I don't recall seeing mentioned: Percy Grainger's Childrens
> March (Over the Hills and Far Away). Lots of fun clarinet runs, and
> great secondary parts interweaving with each other - I got to play the
> bari sax part, which was the lowest-pitched instrument in our band at
> the time (no tubas). "Purple Percy" was the greatest!
>
> Bill E.
>