Klarinet Archive - Posting 000352.txt from 2001/11

From: Stan Geidel <sgeidel@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Stan Geidel's comments on "Bananas"
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 15:07:16 -0500

Dan,

Here I had this whole scheme in mind to checkmate you (it was going to
happen 2 messages from now), and you changed the game on me!

If truly you have no opinion on whether or not KV 361 is a great work, then
I concede. If you are fibbing, you are honor-bound to immediately confess,
and the game is back on!

(Also, I may head over to the library and see if you've ever written
anything in which you offer the opinion that a particular work or composer
is great. If you have, then the game is definitely back on, my friend!)

All the best,
Stan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Leeson" <leeson0@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Stan Geidel's comments on "Bananas"

> Insofar as whether or not the Gran Partitta is a great work, I have no
> idea if it is or is not. I like it. I think it is a wonderful piece.
> It pleases me no end. I would like to think it would please me if it
> were by Fred Schnurtz rather than Mozart but I do have a predilection
> for Mozart. I also notice that some other people like it too, but my
> opinion is neither formed by someone else's views nor altered simply on
> the basis of a disagreement of quality.
>
> Did you notice that every response indicating a positive reaction
> includes reference to its effect on me. But that does not mean anything
> in the broader scheme. In effect, I am unqualified to determine
> universal greatness, only what I think is good for me. After all, how
> can you ask such a question of a man who thinks that Yes We Have No
> Bananas is better than Beethoven's 9th?
>
> Dan
>
> Stan Geidel wrote:
> >
> > Dan Leeson writes:
> >
> > > Stan, I was listening to a composition of yours just the other day,
and
> > > because of mistake made by the radio announcer, it was said to be a
work
> > > by Beethoven. I thought it beautiful until the announcer corrected
> > > himself and said it was by Geidel. Then, of course, I turned against
it
> > > viciously. Now that I know who wrote, I conclude that it must be
awful,
> > > though the clarinet part was very idiomatic.
> > > Get my point?
> >
> > Dan, a very interesting point; a very thought-provoking one at that.
Let me
> > try to begin to answer by asking you a question:
> >
> > Taken solely on its own merits, is Mozart's Serenade for Winds (no 10 in
B
> > flat major, K 361 (370a) "Gran Partita") a great work? (No references
to
> > other Mozart works or the works of any other composers allowed.)
> >
> > Stan Geidel
> > ___________________
> > Stanley Geidel
> > Editor and Publisher
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