Klarinet Archive - Posting 000237.txt from 2000/10

From: Matt Goff <goff@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Most difficult band piece(s)
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 21:17:48 -0400

Probably hardly anyone (maybe no one but me) has heard of the piece that
was that hardest I have ever been a part of. It was a new composition (I
believe we were the first group to perform it even, though it was written
for the Temple Wind Ensemble) by Jan Krzwycki(I don't think that's quite
right). I believe it was called Prelude, Fugue and Chorale or something
not too far off of that. The individual parts were difficult and it was
also difficult to put together as a group. The rhythms were not easy,
especially in concert with large interval leaps. There was a place which
called for flutter tonguing in the altissimo register and this was pretty
much impossible for me to get in the time I had to get it (though I think
I might have been able to manage it eventually). Much of the group really
didn't like the piece. I did not like it at first, though as it started
to come together I started to think it was not that bad. We never did
play it well, so I can't say whether or not I would like it if I had heard
(or played) it as it was supposed to sound.

I played it as a part of the Washington State University Wind Ensemble.
Each year the music department does a new music week, and that particular
year, Krzwycki was the featured composer. As I said, I think we were the
first band to perform it at all, and it sounded like he was going to make
some revisions to it based upon our comments and what he heard.

Matt Goff

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