Klarinet Archive - Posting 000776.txt from 1998/02

From: "Kevin Fay" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: Re: clar.chamber music since 1950
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 17:55:31 -0500

Great topic of conversation. Fifty years is tough, though--I can't
think of a really great chamber piece written after the Quartet for the
End of Time or Bartok's Contrasts, which I believe are both just over 50
years old.

--Kevin

----Original Message Follows----
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 09:57:12 -0700 (MST)
From: lori lovato <clarinet@-----.edu>
Subject: Re: clar.chamber music since 1950

On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Neil Leupold wrote:

> > What are the "top five" chamber pieces for clarinet (excluding solo
> > sonatas and concertos) written since 1950?
>
> Interesting, maybe. But without any guiding criteria upon which
> to base one's answer, there is little substance to this poll.
> "Top five" in terms of what?

Neil,
I was actually hoping to get different ideas, perhaps
"personal favorite five" or even "the five most-likely to become
standards
or classics."

Lori Lovato, Santa Fe Symphony
clarinet@-----.edu

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