Klarinet Archive - Posting 000535.txt from 2000/02

From: "James L Cook" <JamesLCook@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] "The Devil and Daniel Webster"
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 09:06:24 -0500

Try UCLA and UCBerkeley.

James L. Cook

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From: LeliaLoban@-----.com>
Date: Thursday, February 10, 2000 13:46
Subject: [kl] "The Devil and Daniel Webster"

>
>I wrote,
>>I'm looking for sheet music for Bernard Herrmann's "Sleigh Ride," from his
>score to the 1942 movie, "The Devil and Daniel Webster." "Sleigh Ride,"
>which Herrmann wrote for solo clarinet and orchestra, would lend itself
>beautifully to an arrangement for clarinet and piano, or clarinet and
string
>quartet. I have no idea whether or not any arrangement exits. >
>
>Or, for that matter, whether it still exists, after it exits, pursued by a
>bear (or not)....
>
>I committed the mortal sin of pro reviewers by assuming I understood what
>some vague language in the liner notes meant, instead of looking up the
info
>on IMDB (Internet Movie Database, http://www.us.imdb.com) -- and,
naturally,
>assumed wrong. Thanks to Jim O'Briant for the following corrections:
>
>>>Actually, this film was released in 1941, and then re-released under at
>least four other titles in an attempt to increase ticket sales. {Herrmann]
>won the best film score Oscar in 1941, for this film, but under the title,
>"All That Money Can Buy.">>
>
>Thanks also for the information that G. Schirmer may be the Most Likely
>Suspect. If nobody knows for sure about a source of the sheet music for
>"Sleigh Ride," I shall apply all due diligence to the Library of Congress's
>online services (AAAAGGGGHHH!).
>
>Lelia
>("Mouthpiece Demons Ate My Brains!")
>
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