Klarinet Archive - Posting 000147.txt from 2000/03

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Lecture tour
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 20:27:46 -0500

For those of you interested in the subject and near the cities where I
will be, I'll be on a lecture tour of the US with a talk called "Mozart
and Mathematics," a discussion that argues that Mozart had a
mathematical intellect and that sometimes his compositions were affected
by that aspect of his intellect. Most of the audiences consist of the
combined music and mathematics departments of the universities
indicated. That makes it a rare colloquium since the subject matter of
hardly anything falls into both camps. There is a great deal of
detailed disucssion of both the mathematical and the musical/historical
issues involved. The talk flows from the calculus to Mozart C major
piano concerto, K. 503 which has passages in 7/8 time (though not
explicit - you have to look for them) and the technical/mathematical
consequences of this remarkable rhytmic development in Mozart.

The schedule and cities are as follows:

1. Friday, Mar. 30, University of Texas, El Paso, TX
2. Tueday, Apr. 4, Union University, Jackson, TN
3. Thursday, Apr. 6, University of Missouri, Rolla, MO
4. Monday, Apr. 10, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, IN
5. Wednesday, Apr. 12, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
6. Friday, Apr. 14, Anderson University, Anderson, IN
7. TENTATIVE, Approx. Apr. 17, Harvard University, Boston, MA

My wife and I are going to make the trip by car. On the return trip, we
are going back via I70 stopping to do some antiqueing on the way. I
think I shall buy a moose head for my wall and an elephant foot for an
umbrella stand.

Should I meet any clarinet players who ask me how to get a nice dark
sound, I will either make sure that they are no longer capable of human
reproduction, or else, should they already be in that state, force them
buy me pizzas for life.

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** Dan Leeson **
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