Klarinet Archive - Posting 000762.txt from 2002/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Conservative Clarinet Ranges: How do these look?
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 07:08:23 -0400

At 12:08 AM 7/25/2002 -0700, Bear Woodson wrote:
> Stravinsky needed to prove a point with Ex-
>treme Ranges for the sake of New Orchestration
>Standards and Unique Timbres, but I don't need
>to do that. Instead I drive people crazy with un-
>expected Chromaticism and Complex Counter-
>point. Once they actually hear my works, they
>say it makes sense. (I sometimes make a Syn-
>thesizer Recording from my Finale Scores, so
>that people can hear them, before Live Musicians
>try to play them. If they already like Hindemith,
>Prokofieff and those guys, then they usually like
>my music, but they just need to get familiar with
>hearing my works.)

I think most of us would LOVE to hear one of these synthesizer recordings
to get a better handle on your harmonic system. Is there any way one could
be made available for listening? Mark, could Bear post one on the OCR?

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.net
451 Old Orchard Drive
Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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