Klarinet Archive - Posting 000841.txt from 2000/06

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Despised music?
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 05:42:59 -0400

At 03:15 AM 06/21/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>I have one: Percy Grainger for those that know.

I'm so sad to see that this person doesn't like any of Grainger's music -
not that that is a crime or anything. But his Lincolnshire Posy, Irish
Tune from County Derry, Hill Song #2, and some of his other original works
for band or winds are staples of the wind band repertoire. They were (and
still are) progressive in the sense that his use of form and tonalities was
unusual at the time.

I don't like all of his music, but some of his music is some of my favorite.

Sincerely,
Roger Garrett

Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director, Symphonic Winds
Advisor, IWU Recording Services
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
(309) 556-3268

A Clarinetist's Revenge is sometimes personified by the following excerpt
from the London Daily News, circa 1926:

"The saxophone is a long metal instrument bent at both ends. It is alleged
to be musical. As regards markings, the creature has a series of tiny taps
stuck upon it, apparently at random. These taps are very sensitive: when
touched they cause the instrument to utter miserable sounds suggesting
untold agony. Sometimes it bursts into tears. At either end there is a
hole. People, sometimes for no reason at all, blow down the small end of
the saxophone which then shrieks and moans."

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