Klarinet Archive - Posting 000021.txt from 1999/01

From: Neil Leupold <nleupold@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] bassoon+Clarinet gig.
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 07:09:00 -0500

On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Kate Alexander wrote:

> I have been asked to play a duet with a very accomplished orchestral
> Bassoonist for the opening ceremony of a VERY SPECIAL IMPORTANT centre
> with extra special international type people in July and I don't know
> what to play....
> The instructions were "classical" and "Sacred" .

If you could convince everybody that it's religious in some way,
I'd do Strauss' Duet Concertino for Clarinet & Bassoon, using piano
reduction for the orchestra. Beautiful piece, technically challenging
(will keep your bassoonist on his/her toes).

Neil

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