Klarinet Archive - Posting 000659.txt from 1999/04

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fredj@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Copland Concerto original version?
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:09:26 -0400

Mario,
Boosey didn't publish your so-called "original edition" because
Copland didn't want it. He was convinced by Goodman that it was a good
idea to keep it the "easier" way. Kyle Koughlin wrote a DMA thesis on the
Concerto. It is in the Peabady Conservatory library. I suggest that you
contact the library for a copy of it if you want I have seen some of
the passages he changed and frankly, changing them didn't make a whole lot
of difference to the musical effect. A few more 16-notes here or there are
not really an issue.
Don't forget, many composers just don't know all the problems of
the instruments they write for. So it is possible that Copland's original
really was overly difficult in spots - Goodman's technical shortcomings
notwithstanding. Charlie Neidich is a technical whiz so
nothing would be particularly hard for him but for the rest of us, it is
NICE to have a playable concerto like the Copland. Don't be so quick to
look for a harder version. You might just get what you wished for - in
spades!

Fred Jacobowitz
Clarinet/Sax Instructor, Peabody Preparatory

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 KlarBoy@-----.com wrote:

> 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
>
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