Klarinet Archive - Posting 000949.txt from 1999/12

From: Bonnie Davis <bdskees@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bad Gig Coming -- Suggestions Please
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 21:36:03 -0500

Another suggestion--since we aren't going for great
art here, how about a clarinet version of the
Rachmaninoff Vocalise, followed by the soprano's
version, with, perhaps some clarinet improvisational
licks accompanying (helping out?)the soprano, or you
could do your version straight, she do her version
straight, then you do the combined version, depending
on how much time you have to fill. It's not a long
piece, but it's "pretty" and would probably appeal to
your audience. Of course, the downside is that you'd
probably have to do the arrangements.

--- mark weinstein <cpaok@-----.net> wrote:
> How about the Finzi Bagatelles ... doesn't have to
> be all of 'em --- and
> shouldn't be too tough on the pianist either. Your
> solution to the soprano
> is a song with no words.
>
> Gershwin excerpts ?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kevin Fay (LCA) <kevinfay@-----.com>
> To: <klarinet>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 7:37 PM
> Subject: [kl] Bad Gig Coming -- Suggestions Please
>
>
> > OK, here's a wild one.
> >
> > I've been "volunteered" to play a short selection
> for a room full of
> lawyers
> > in April. (Spare the jokes, please -- I've heard
> them all). It's my
> > bosses' bosses' idea of corporate well-being and
> all sorts of other
> #=&(%$+*
> > like that. Since I like having my job, I have to
> do this.
> >
> > Here's the problem -- what to play? I want
> something very light and
> > hopefully short. The audience really isn't into
> chamber music (and I'm
> not
> > really into playing for them). I was thinking the
> 3rd movement of the
> > Poulenc Sonata, but it's too long and a bit atonal
> for this audience --
> and
> > the piano player, while a very fine paralegal, is
> not a great pianist.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > (Oh -- and it gets worse. MUCH worse. There's
> another lawyer here who
> > sings soprano in her church, and thinks that it'd
> be great fun to try
> > Schubert's "Shepherd on a Rock" in front of all of
> all of our co-workers.
> > She does not sing as well as the piano player
> plays. I'm trying to
> dissuade
> > this one . . . )
> >
> > All ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > kjf
> >
> >
>
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