Klarinet Archive - Posting 000520.txt from 1999/09

From: DGross1226@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Re: Music for Solo Clarinet and Band
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 02:15:41 -0400

In a much earlier message April wrote:

<< I would like to appeal to all clarinetists and band directors! - I am
wondering if anyone out there knows of a 'good' piece of music for solo
clarinet and concert band. I have been invited to solo with the highs chool
band, and the band director has informed me that the band accompaniment part
should not be difficult.>>

April,

Also consider the "Polonaise from Mignon" by Ambroise Thomas arranged for
solo clarinet and band. The original Carl Fisher arrangement is still
available from the Detroit Concert Band in Scottsdale, Arizona. I first
heard it as a 7th grader in 1951 when it was performed by the solo
clarinetist accompanied by our high school's concert band. Thanks to
KLARINET member Terry Oxley who also knew the piece -- AND the Detroit
Concert Band -- forty-five years later I bought the full band arrangement and
read thru the piece with the Caltech/Occidental College Concert Band. There
is also a clarinet/piano version, also published by Carl Fisher, which I
performed at Glendale College last spring. I also suggest that if you
perform the work, get a recording of the full opera and listen to the aria
"Je Suis Titania" and also read the translation. It really helps the
interpretation.

Good Luck!

Don Gross
La Canada, California

p.s. The address and telephone number for the Detroit Concert Band is:

The Detroit Concert Band, Inc.
7443 East Butherus, Suite 100
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
(602) 948-9870

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