Klarinet Archive - Posting 000161.txt from 2002/07

From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: War Pieces
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:25:28 -0400

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 16:07:45 -0500, "Pastor Luby D. Jackson III"
<mus_ldj@-----.com> wrote:
>
>I have just come in contact with some lovely music entitled "The Sword And
>The Crown"
>
>Can any of you please share with me on these parts? I've played the bass
>clarinet part in this piece but I'd love to have the 1st Bb Clarinet part
>and also the Eb Clarinet part to play in community band.

If you are playing this in a community band, then doesn't the band already
have all the parts for it?

>Please share your sentiments and expertise with me on these majestic pieces
>and how I acquire the parts necessary to futher develop my playing.

The Sword and The Crown is still in print, and is available from JWPepper.
It's expensive, although you can order just the conductor's score for $30.

>I love those Old English pieces with those sounds of royalty and plush
>scoring in the middle/lower brass.

In that case, there are many pieces by Holst and Grainger you might enjoy.
Holst's "First Military Suite for Band" and "Second Military Suite for Band"
as well as his "Songs of the West" are filled with that kind of fat, full
scoring. Elgar, of "Pomp and Circumstance" fame, would also fill this bill.

>... I've been told the parts to "The Hobbit" and "Lord Of Rings" are
>nothing much more than swirlish funny that I can also liken unto these
>pieces.

I've read this sentence several times, and I'm still not sure what you were
trying to say. Johan de Meij's "Lord of the Rings" symphony is a vast,
complicated, modern piece that has almost nothing in common with the old
English standards mentioned above. Perhaps you are referring to something
else with the same name.

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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