Klarinet Archive - Posting 000182.txt from 2000/10

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Most difficult band piece(s)
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 21:43:33 -0400

At 06:43 PM 10/03/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>One of the toughest I've seen is the first clarinet part for Celebration
>Overture, by Paul Creston, who's not known to write simple stuff. An
>excerpt was used for the audition for the Coast Guard Band recently.
>I'm glad I was the 2nd alto sax player the year our college band did
>it. And the sax parts were real killers too.
>
>Bill Edinger

My band is currently playing the Creston "Prelude and Dance", and the
clarinet/sax parts are very, very challenging. It is not the most
difficult work written for band, as Celebration Overture is not either.

However, difficult band works are much more involved than technique. While
Dyonisiauqes by Florent Schmitt, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by
Bach/Leidzen, the Hindemith Symphony, Guenther Schuller's Symphony for
Band, and the Ingolf Dahl Sinfonietta are all technically very challenging,
I would be hard pressed to pick one of those that is more difficult than
the other - simply on the merit of style.

Interesting thread.

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

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Unsubscribe from Klarinet, e-mail: klarinet-unsubscribe@-----.org
Subscribe to the Digest: klarinet-digest-subscribe@-----.org
Additional commands: klarinet-help@-----.org
Other problems: klarinet-owner@-----.org