Klarinet Archive - Posting 000410.txt from 2000/01

From: EbKlarinet@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Re: Wood's Manx Overture and Mannin Veen
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:28:18 -0500

In a message dated 1/12/00 4:16:58 AM Eastern Standard Time,
klarinet-digest-help@-----.org writes:

<< Don Longacre wrote:

> Can anyone tell me if they have ever run across a source
> for the Manx Overture on CD? The composer may have been
> Arnold Bax. I played it over 50 years ago in a Symphonic
> Band and haven't heard it since.

You may be thinking of "Mannin Veen," subtitled "A Manx Overture," composed
by Haydn (Hayden?) Wood. It's been a staple in the band repertoire
forever. We played it in Iowa All-State Band in 1961.

Jim O'Briant
Bayside Music Press
Gilroy, CA
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I remember the Manx Overture very well from my hs days. I had to take the
part home and practice my butt off to play all the runs!!! Then when my
stepsister was in hs 10 years later, she brought home a piece that looked
very similar and was obviously printed by the same publisher, but was called
Mannin Veen, and it had tons of runs, too! Hardly anybody does those pieces
anymore, though I did get to finally play Mannin Veen with my community band,
and the way Wood opens with the whole clarinet section in the low register is
very effective. Glad to say I did not have to practice the runs this
time---how things change! <g>

Elise Curran

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