Klarinet Archive - Posting 000691.txt from 1999/09

From: "Mr. Sheim" <fsheim@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] A 10-Worst List of Clarinet Works
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 21:05:58 -0400

In defense of #2, the Mendelssohn Sonata, the second movement is quite
beautiful.

Fred (fsheim@-----.com)

At 08:59 PM 9/21/99 -0400, you wrote:
>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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