Klarinet Archive - Posting 000997.txt from 1998/04

From: Jacqueline Eastwood <eastwooj@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: World Premier!
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 19:20:00 -0400

On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Oliver Seely wrote:

> The world premier Karaoke performance of Anton Reicha's Quintet for
> flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn and bassoon, Opus 88, No. 1 will take
> place this afternoon in Natural Sciences and Mathematics C239 on the
> campus of California State University Dominguez Hills.
> I anticipate an enthusiastic audience not suprisingly different in size
> from past performances of this kind.
>
> This quintet is a charming work and an important addition to the literature
> of wind instruments. I thank the member of FLUTE who alerted me to
> the quintets of Anton Reicha a month ago or so. More than two dozen
> wind quintets that man wrote! That ought to take me the better part of the
> final years of the second millenium! One down, twenty-four to go!
>
<SNIP>

Having played in the graduate wind quintet here for about 6 years, my
experience with Reicha is that your job is already completed! (Psst...
they're all the same! OK, a couple of exceptions....) ;+)

Happy Friday, and continued success with your technological endeavours!

Jacqueline Eastwood
University of Arizona/Arizona Opera Orchestra
eastwooj@-----.edu