Klarinet Archive - Posting 000542.txt from 2001/04

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Hindemith
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:45:18 -0400

Interesting that you should mention that. I heard the first performance
of the work at Yale in the early 1950s and I could not understand the
composition in the slightest. Now when I hear it, it sounds like
Brahms. Either Hindemith rewrote it or my ears have improved.

Dave Spiegelthal wrote:
>
> Hindemith's Symphony for Band is (IMHO) an awesome work, to play as well as to
> hear. Certainly nothing he wrote is an "easy listen", but his music is worth
> the effort.
> Dave Spiegelthal
> Calverton, VA
>
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