Klarinet Archive - Posting 001189.txt from 1998/01

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Grainger's band music
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:25:50 -0500

> On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Jarle Brosveet wrote:
> > Versions conceived for band in the first place often sound better or are
> > more substantial than arrangements coming as a afterthought.

Roger Garrett Responded:
> If I understand your reference to Grainger then, are you suggesting that
> he did not arrange or sketch the others for band as well as others he
> wrote for band? Is that your contention? I am just trying to understand
> exactly what you meant by this statment. Are you saying that Irish Tune
> and others you have mentioned were simply afterthoughts only? That he put
> no true effort into their scoring because they were just to earn him some
> extra salary?

Jarle Brosveet then responded:
> I stand by what I said. Please don't draw conclusions that cannot be
> substantiated. I have never said what you try to make others believe
> that I think about Grainger and his works. I like his works very much,
> even the versions which he or others arranged for wind band.
> Aftertoughts can be rewarding, particularly those of Percy Grainger. I
> have played most of them several times with a wind band and even
> conducted the band in Irish Tune. It will be a pleasure to do so again.

While I can appreciate what Jarle is saying regarding in the first
posting, he did not give any examples that can help the members of the
list, myself included, understand why he has come to believe this.
Because his reference was with regard to Percy Grainger's music, as were
the two prior posts, one by Dan Leeson and my response to Dan's posting,
it is not unreasonable to assume that Jarle's posting above was referring
to the Grainger works he listed in his historical posting (3rd posting).
To ask me not to draw conclusions based on his posting is odd to say the
least. I was merely trying to understand what he has said. I do not
believe I was trying to "make others believe" anything. Jarle really
has only stated what he does not believe.....that my conclusions were
inaccurate, and that he likes Grainger's works. He believes versions
of some works somewhere that were conceived for band in the first
place often sound better or are more substantial than arrnangements
coming as a[n] afterthought, but, I still cannot tell if he thinks those
works mentioned fall into the less substantial category implied
above. Irish Tune is a work that was conceived of for band after a
different version for a different genre by Grainger. I'm wondering,
Jarle, if you were not referring to this kind of piece or even this
particular work, which works by Grainger did you mean are less substantial
than the originally conceived of versions? If you do not know of any, why
did you make your first statement?

Roger Garrett
IWU