Klarinet Archive - Posting 000628.txt from 1998/06

From: "Don Yungkurth" <clarinet@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Brahms Quintet Arrangements
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:19:32 -0400

The discussions in the last few day about arrangements of the Mozart and
Brahms Clarinet Quintets by Del Sizemore, Oliver Seely and Dan Leeson (and
perhaps others) reminded me of the most unusual version of the Brahms I've
ever heard. Each year at the Chamber Music Conference of the East, in
Bennington, Vermont, at the end of one of the weeks, there is a group that
gets a performance together just for the fun of it.

They are called, "The Casual Sax Sextet" and have performed, among other
things, the complete "Poet and Peasant Overture". They frequently make an
entrance playing "The Great Gate of Kiev". My all-time favorite, however,
was the time they did the first half page or so of the Brahms Clarinet
Quintet, all saxes, with the clarinet part on soprano sax, with excessive
vibrato.

A real cultural high!

Don Yungkurth (clarinet@-----.net)

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