Klarinet Archive - Posting 000647.txt from 1999/04

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Copland Concerto original version?
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:09:14 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.65
> Subj: [kl] Copland Concerto original version?

> It recently came to my attention that the version of the Copland concerto
> currently published was simplified for Benny Goodman by the composer.
> Apparently there were a few differences in tessatura in the coda which
> included a final gliss which adds an extra otave to an altissimo D.
> Apparently this is the version Charles Neidich plays. Does anyone else know
> any other differences in the versions? Why wouldn't Boosey published the
> original as an Ossia?
> Mario

The manuscript of Copland's original version is in the Library of
Congress. They will sell you a xerographic copy for a few
dollars if you write and ask for it. What you need to do is to
buy such a copy and discover for yourself what he wrote originally.

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