Klarinet Archive - Posting 000975.txt from 2002/11

From: "Brian Peterson" <brianp@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Hindemith Clarinet Quintet
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:09:16 -0500

If memory serves me correctly, the quintet is not the only piece where he
did the "forward/backward" thing. Was there an opera maybe where he did the
same thing?

Also, are there any recordings of the symphony for band that are
commercially available? I played it almost twenty years ago in high school
and the melody still haunts me even though I haven't heard it since.

Thanks.

Brian Peterson
mostly "list lurker"

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From: Daniel Leeson [mailto:leeson0@-----.net]
Subject: [kl] Hindemith Clarinet Quintet

Paul Hindemith wrote a clarinet quintet that has two remarkable things
about it. First, an entire movement requires the E-flat clarinet to
play all passages, and second, the last movement is the same as the
first movement, but backwards, and for all five players; i.e., clarinet
and string quartet.

I played it once and, like a good deal of Hindemith, I never understood
it, but it was interesting and the E-flat part very characteristic of
the instrument.

He also wrote a wonderful symphony for band, and I heard the first
performance of it at Yale in the 1950s.

Dan
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