Klarinet Archive - Posting 000706.txt from 2002/10

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] New music files available.
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 16:58:24 -0500

Hi Gary,

Most of my world premiere Karaoke concerts are performed before a faithful
group of fans in my study at the back of the house. I can always count on
our geriatric cat Samantha who sleeps through most of the pieces and a
critical cricket or one of his extended family who crawls under the door
from the garden and tries to muscle in on my act, out of tune and with no
sense of tempo.

The only recent premiere having live humans present was the K.361 Gran
Partitta with 5 clarinetists present, two on the clarinet parts and three
divided between the two transposed basset horn parts. We did that one in
my friend Vince's kitchen and dining room. The other four members of that
group had poor Karaoke skills so I unmuted the basset horn tracks to allow
us to stay in sync with the computer. As I recall there are more than a
few places where the group of four instruments plays alone as a quartet and
there are a couple of segments in which the basset horns play lone duets so
our artists kept getting lost until I turned back on the basset horn tracks.

I'm in the process of finishing the articulation and dynamics of all of my
Mozart offerings in plenty of time for the Quarter Millennium celebration,
in 2006, of the composer's birth. Put on your thinking caps about plans
for concerts and activities (featuring the clarinet, of course) in places
other than Salzburg that year.

Oliver

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