Klarinet Archive - Posting 000423.txt from 2002/04

From: Kenneth Wolman <kenneth.wolman@-----.net>
Subj: RE: RE: [kl] Woodwind=sneezy
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:35:37 -0400

> Don't forget Vivaldi. He wrote La Notta, one in C, one in a
> minor, and maybe some more. Also didn't Gordon Jacob write a
> bazooka...oops, bedpost...opps, bassoon concerto?
>
> James Marioneaux

No, Vivaldi (not Billy Rose) wrote "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On
The Bedpost Overnight?" He wrote it for a bassoon choir and it was adapted
for recorder and baroque flute. J. J. Quantz (JayJay to his drinking
buddies in Frederick the Great's court) also credited the Red Priest with
arranging La Notte so it could be played 200+ years later by Spike Jones.
Talk about being ahead of your time....

This catfight and kvetching over a NAME is getting silly. Why don't we
narrow it further? Only clarinets in A. No Bb allowed because that's how
kids start out. No Eb, no C. Maybe a corner or two for the basset horn
because Mozart wrote for it, and some space for the bass because it's all
over Wagner, Tchaikovsky, and Shostokovitch. But sod the bassoonists, sod
the flutists, sod sod sod? What are we in here, a garden and lawn care
shop? There's certainly enough fertilizer around this topic to make me
think so. A lot of people on this list are doublers or triplers. The last
time I looked the only people who make a downright religion of their musical
instruments are the guys who play uilleann pipes. "Blessed Seamus Ennis,
pray for us." For Heaven sakes, lighten up. Some of you are making this
sound like an AA meeting where they throw you out if you mention ever having
used narcotics.

Ken
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Kenneth Wolman
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"...perhaps forgiveness is a process more than an emotion, perhaps it's
meant to make us discover those other conditions within ourselves, love,
belief in love, to which forgiveness itself is incidental..."--C. K.
Williams, "Misgivings"

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