Klarinet Archive - Posting 001130.txt from 2000/06

From: mus_ldj@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Despised music?
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 02:05:46 -0400

Can you please send me the Eb clarinet parts to those Grainger pieces you've
named. I"ll pay for them.

rgarrett@-----.edu wrote:

> 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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