Klarinet Archive - Posting 000280.txt from 2000/02

From: Oliver Seely <oliver@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: [kl] Chamber Music and Beethoven
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 20:45:18 -0500

Hi Christina,

Opus 20 is a delightful septet in six movements. I rehearsed it just last
night with members of my Sili(con) Symphony in preparation for a Karaoke
Beethoven Bash next Friday afternoon.

You're probably committed already to play it as a trio, so be it, but as
the septet, the third movement (Menuetto), fourth (Theme and Variations)
and fifth (Scherzo) are my favorites, the third because of the great
conversations between clarinet and strings, the fourth because I tend to be
a theme and variations freak and the fifth because of the "glory" part by
the French horn and the appealing accompaniment by everyone else. I can't
imagine the fifth movement working as a trio for clarinet, cello and piano.

Anyway, you can find it along with a lot more Beethoven chamber music at my
Web site,
http://chemistry.csudh.edu/oliver/clarmusi.htm,
and Mark Charette's Web site, "The Clarinet Pages",
http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet/

I probably won't do the derived trio version of Opus 20 -- Opus 38 (I
think) for my page, because all of the members of my Sili(con) Symphony
seem to be content to live in my laptop computer. They are ready for
rehearsal or concert in a minute, never complain, don't belong to a union
and their price is right! Moreover, I can change any of them I wish into a
cello and piano on a whim. Dr. Frankenstein was an amateur! 8-)

Oliver

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