Klarinet Archive - Posting 000825.txt from 2001/05

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Requirements for grade
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 08:56:06 -0400

At 11:10 PM 05/28/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>>Bill,
>>
>>I'll take it even a step further......
>>
>>Name 10 composers who are considered "great" or have had an impact on
>>music in a significant, global way - who did not perform on an instrument
>>or sing.......
>>
>>Waiting.......
>
>I think we are on the same side here, Roger. I can't think of a one! but
>I can think of plenty of composers who were accomplished
>performers: Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Rachmaninoff...

Oh.....I realize we were posting on the same side of the argument
Bill! Not to worry.......

And contemporaries - how about Bernstein.........Guenther Schuller............

Best wishes,
Roger Garrett

Roger Garrett
Clarinet Professor
Director, Symphonic Winds
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
Phone: (309) 556-3268
Fax: (309) 556-3121

"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes
another's."
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)

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