Klarinet Archive - Posting 000818.txt from 1998/12

From: "Benjamin A. Maas" <bmaas@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Weber: Grand Duo Concertant
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 21:59:59 -0500

>Has anybody else heard the Weber Grand Duo Concertant played on other
>instruments? The other morning I awoke to the familiar, yet unfamiliar
>sounds of that piece being performed on the violin by Gideon Kramer
>(sp?). While his playing was very professional, it really made me
>appreciate what a great sounding instrument the clarinet is.
>
>Can we mildly protest this encroachment on our turf? I know it's done
>all the time, but some things should be sacred, don't you think?
>
>Bart Kinlein

I have never heard it performed on other instruments (and I am not sure I'd
want to), but my copy of the music--Published by Peters-- comes with a
violin part as well. At the time I sort of laughed it off...

--Ben

Benjamin Maas
Clarinetist and Digital Recording Engineer
Student, University of Southern California
Executive Director, Digital Renaissance Consort
bmaas@-----.net
bmaas@-----.edu

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