Klarinet Archive - Posting 000073.txt from 2000/06

From: klarANNette h satterfield <klarann@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinets in fiction
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 02:22:02 -0400

On Thu, 1 Jun 2000 21:44:57 EDT LeliaLoban@-----.com writes:
>On another thread, I said I couldn't remember any fiction about clarinet

>players. Color my face red! I not only know of an excellent novel
about a
>clarinetist, *I reviewed it*! I was seriously ill at the time and the
fact
>that I failed to remember the book reflects on me, not on Due's writing.

I have a copy of a paperback mystery The Murder Sonata by Frances
Fletcher. Leisure Mystery, published 1980.
Specifically the principal clarinetist is murdered. The book has a
clarinet on the cover, and the blurb--"When a clarinetist is found
murdered, the cops have an orchestra full of suspects."

Another pb, Murder in C Major by Sara Hoskinson Frommer, first published
by St. Martin's in 1986 and pb Worldwide in 1988. The setting is in a
community orchestra, the oboeist is poisoned. The blurb "Who is
silencing the woodwind section?"

Neither of these are great literature, but competently written and
realistic about musical characters.

Other mysteries that have orchestra musicians as important characters (
that i do not have at hand), but read library copies include:
Alisa Craig (aka Charlotte MacLeod)--main character is a Canadian
Mountie, the tone-deaf member of a internationally famous musical family.
One of the mysteries involves death in touring orchestra while in
Canada. I think the title is "Trouble in the Brasses". And at least on
other of the series involves visiting the musical parents.

One (two?) of Dick Francis' mysteries has as main protagonist a jockey
who is the unmusical member of a famous family.

I hope to track down and reread a funny and enjoyable book --Danilov the
violist--by ? Orlov. It was published sometime during the '80s. Set in
USSR, the main character, Danilov, is a ne-er do well half demon (he
likes to help people rather than undo them). That he is a viola-ist is a
sample of the twist that Orlov gives to the cliches.

fwiw,

annhall
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Ann Satterfield
clarinetist and teacher
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and mystery reader...

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