Klarinet Archive - Posting 000690.txt from 1999/09

From: David Blumberg <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] A 10-Worst List of Clarinet Works
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 20:59:39 -0400

Ok here it is - the infamous "bottom 10 list of all time" as
compiled November 1975 by our own Dan Leeson:

1. Unaccompanied Clarinet - Luigi Arditi 3 Valses de Salon - Shott Publ.
2. Clarinet Sonata by a Famous Composer - Felix Mendelssohn Sonata ( G.
Schirmer Publ.)
3. Most Pretentious Trio Arrangement - Richard Wagner - Die Meistersinger
for Clarinet Violin Piano - Friedlander arr. (Schott publ.)
4. Funniest Clarinet Quartet - James Waterson Grand Quartet for 4 Clarinets
(Southern Music)
5. Piano / Wind Quintet by an Aristocratic, Dead, Left-Handed Composer who
could have doubled as a Naval Officer when required - Nicolai
Rimsky-Korsakov Quintet in Bb (International Publ.)
6. Wind Octet - Georg Druschetsky - Six Partitas (Doblinger Publ.)
7. Ten Instruments - Geore Enesco - Dixtour (Salabert Publ.)
8. Solo Clarinet and Band - Rimsky Korsakov - Concerto (Omega Publ.)
9. Least Favorite Cadenza - Offenbach - Orpheus in the Underworld -
(everybody publishes it)
10. Least Favorite Free-style Work - a 3 way tie
Mozart - Cassation (Southern)
Barrington - Nip and Tuc (Fischer Publ.)
Khachaturian Trio (Leeds Publ)

The original article also had various really funny commentary - I'll share
with you the one about the Trio of
Khachaturian - "A nightmare of Armenian folktunes in which the instruments
come in one at a time while the audience goes out one at a time".

We love ya Dan!!

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

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