Klarinet Archive - Posting 000275.txt from 2003/05

From: Andrew Homzy <homzy@-----.ca>
Subj: [kl] Reginal Kell - recording wanted
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 12:46:04 -0400

I am looking for a recording.

35 years ago, shortly after I moved to Montr=E9al, I heard a fantastic
recording played on the radio. It sounded like Barney Bigard with orchestra=
l
strings. The announcer said it was a piece by Debussy played by Reginald
Kell. I thought I heard the announcer say the title of the piece was "La
Plume Collant". I asked a friend what that meant and she said: "A Sticky
Feather".

The recording stayed in my memory and whenever I thought of it, I would go
into a record or music store looking for the recording of "A Sticky
Feather"/La Plume Collant" played by Reginald Kell. No one ever heard of th=
e
piece and only a few were able to tell me that all of Kell's recordings wer=
e
out of print.

A few years later, I became wiser learning that the Debussy piece was "La
Plus Que Lente" - but I was never able to find the Kell Recording.

If any one is able to burn me a CD of that Lp, I will be happy to buy a cop=
y
of that recording which has haunted me for many years.

Cheers,

Andrew Homzy - Department of Music
Concordia University
Montreal, Quebec
CANADA H4B 1R6

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