Klarinet Archive - Posting 000869.txt from 1999/05

From: David Blumberg <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] re: Bennett- Robert Russell
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 17:33:38 -0400

: Tue, 18 May 1999 08:33:33 -1300
From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subject: RE: [kl] Oven baked clarinet
Message-ID: <009D8491.944C2424.91@-----.edu>
> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.37
> Subj: RE: [kl] Oven baked clarinet
> On Tue, 18 May 1999, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:
>
> > The flutist's name was Harold Bennet and his theory was that the
> > manufacturing process disturbed the molecules of the wood from their
> > natural state when the wood was part of a tree.
>
> Was there also another person named Harold Bennet who was involved in the
> musical world about the same time? When I was a beginning high school
> teacher in the late 1950's and 60's, I remember that there was a composer
> of pieces, especially marches, for school bands, whose name was Bennet or
> Bennett. I seem to recall that his first name was Harold. Are there two
> of them, or is the flutist also the band composer?
>
> Ed Lacy
> el2@-----.edu
I don't think that the NY Harold Bennet is the same one as you are
speaking of as writing music for school bands but it could be. The
Harold Bennet I was speaking of was first flute at the Met, and
also was a very busy repairman, one of the most sought after in
NY. My contacts with him were purely business when he would do
my horns so I never knew what his activities were outside of
repair and playing at the Met. He was a terrific flutist.
Bottom line, Ed, is that I can't answer your question.
Dan

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Ed,
It was Robert Russell Bennett that you're thinking of. He wrote the "Suite
of old American Dances" a Classic in the Band Literature. There was also a
Richard Rodney Bennett who wrote music.

David Blumberg
playit@-----.com
http://www.mytempo.com
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