Klarinet Archive - Posting 000862.txt from 2003/02

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl]A thread for posts unrelated to the subject header
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:08:05 -0500

Tony Pay wrote,
>Feel free; here's mine:
>
>>Seven ages: first puking and mewling,
[snip]--Robert Conquest

I'll bet you thought I was here to complain about the dirty word later in
the poem. Ritual nag nag nag, kids on the list (who've probably got worse
mouths than mine), angry mommies imposing e- mail blockers, yadda yadda
yadda, okay?

No, I really popped up to add that I enjoyed Tony Wakefield's musical
version of the same idea, but reduced down to *three* ages (baby, brat,
codger) for flute, clarinet and oboe:

http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/showscore.pl?scoreid=19016

The audio on that site is necessarily computer-simulated, but the score
looks like it would be fun to play.

Lelia Loban
lelialoban@-----.net
New address!

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