Klarinet Archive - Posting 000445.txt from 1998/11

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] A VIRTUOSO SERPENT CONCERT
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 04:38:28 -0500

Interesting, though a long way from me. Berlioz was far from fond
of the serpent; what he would have expected was two ophicleides, though he
only suffered *those* by default of anything better likely to be available
in France. See his "Memoirs" re this - recommended to *everybody* who
hasn't read them, in fact.
Roger Shilcock

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, ROB

ERT HOWE wrote:

> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 01:38:04 -0400
> From: ROBERT HOWE <arehow@-----.net>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: Warren Francis <warhorn@-----.com>
> Cc: Dan Platt <jdplatt@-----.com>,
> "Eells, John" <John_Eells@-----.us>,
> gary kingsbury <garyking@-----.net>,
> Grant Green <gdgreen@-----.com>,
> "Hayward, Todd & Merry Jane" <haywards@-----.com>,
> Jane McKinley <kraaihof@-----.com>,
> "klarinet@-----.org>,
> Lani Spahr <spahr@-----.com>,
> "Mike Dulac, Kathy Waldron" <mdulac@-----.com>,
> Nikolaus Spoerel <spoerel@-----.kr>,
> Paul Cohen <PaulC135@-----.com>,
> Paul Utgoff <utgoff@-----.edu>,
> "paulwl@-----.com>,
> Sam Quigley <samq@-----.net>,
> Sax list <rccarter_saxophone@-----.edu>,
> Stephen Hammer <s.hammer@-----.net>
> Subject: [kl] A VIRTUOSO SERPENT CONCERT
>
> COME TO AN EXTRAORDINARY AND UNUSUAL CONCERT PERFORMANCE:
>
> DOUGLAS YEO,
> Bass trombonist of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, will
> perform as SERPENT SOLOIST on
>
> NOVEMBER 15, 1998
>
> with the CONNECTICUT VALLEY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
> Tibor Pustai, conductor.
>
> Mr. Yeo, who is the only professional player of the Serpent in the
> United States, will play Serpent in the orchestra for Mendelssohns's
> CALM SEAS AND PROSPEROUS VOYAGE Overture; will play with members of the
> Orchestra in a Harmonie-musick arrangement of the BEETHOVEN SEPTET in
> Eb, opus 20, from 1812; and will present the first US Performances
> outside of Boston, of the CONCERTO for SERPENT by the modern English
> composer SIMON PROCTOR. Also programmed is the REQUIEM FOR OUR TIME for
> brass and percussion ensemble by the Finnish composer E. Rautavaara.
>
> Mr. Yeo has performed as Serpent soloist in the Proctor Concerto with
> the BOSTON POPS under John Williams and with the BOSTON CLASSICAL
> ORCHESTRA, has played the Serpent in the North American and Asian
> premiere performances of Berlioz' MESSE SOLONELLE by the BSO under Seiji
> Ozawa, and has appeared in recital on the Serpent and lectured at the
> Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He will demonstrate the instrument
> informally during the concert.
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