Klarinet Archive - Posting 000134.txt from 1999/07

From: Clarguy3@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] American Decets
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 15:09:52 -0400

In a message dated 7/5/99 10:35:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
Tony@-----.uk writes:

>
> Can anyone tell me what is the best wind decet by an American composer?
> I have to conduct some concerts, some for children, but a 'formal' one
> at the end, with the wind section of a Scandinavian orchestra. I know
> that the Florent Schmitt Lied and Scherzo is good, and of course there's
> the Gounod (tho' only one flute), and Michael Bryant has told me about
> the Gouvy, but there *must* be something that y'all know that is
> completely unknown to us in Europe.
>
There is a number of American works for double quintet. I'm partial to one
by Allan Blank called Polymorphics (1988), which is recorded on Centaur
CRC2248. Blank also has a variations on the same Pagannini theme that
everyone else has written as variations.
Hope it helps.
Chuck West

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