Klarinet Archive - Posting 000273.txt from 1998/10

From: MorgyJr@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] TCHAIKOVSKY AND SKELETONS
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 21:47:44 -0400

In a message dated 10/5/98 7:24:26 PM, agalper@-----.com writes:

<<When one listens to the last movement of the pathetique, one can hear
the depth of grief he must have been subjected to. He may have written
this before this event.
Still one of my favorite composers.
>>

Oh, thank you!! Brian Priestman, the once conductor of the Denver Symphony
and then conductor of the KUSO (that's Kansas, not Kentucky) told very much
the same story when we were doing the Pathetique. To this day, the slow
movement wrenches my heart out.

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