Klarinet Archive - Posting 000749.txt from 2003/06

From: "LARISA DUFFY & DAVID DOW" <DUFFYL@-----.CA>
Subj: Re: [kl] Distelhorst
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 19:53:13 -0400

Check the Osborne book out on the Karajan membership thing....excellent
reading. --- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subject: [kl] Distelhorst

> Disappointed by the nil response to my request,
> Worldcat revealed the reason. There are only two
> copies of this book in the Universe and one is locked in a safe.
>
> The following information was provided by Worldcat
> Walter Distelhorst's (1886-?) 'Clarinet Chamber-Music Repertory'
> is Chapter 7 in Volume III of a book called "Dramatic
> Soprano of the Woodwind". A copy (1953) is kept locked in
> the safe in the Archive Room at the University of Louisville,
> School of Music Library. It is typed and hand-written and has 89 (?)
> leaves with interleaved concert programmes, postcards, letters and
> newspaper clippings, and has been put in a spring binder.
> It is an extension of the first version that was deposited
> in the Library of Congress in 1946.
>
> Louisville resident Walter Distelhorst for over 50 years
> gave all the time he could spare from his business to the
> pursuit of clarinet playing and repertory. This is intended for clarinet
> enthusiasts interested in classical ensemble repertoire for clarinet.
> Access is restricted. Scholars interested in clarinet repertory
> may view_but_not_copy_. Researchers apply to Head Music Librarian.
>
> First version deposited in the Library of Congress:
> LC Shelfmark: ML128.C58, LC Accession No 19880518
> Clarinet chamber-music repertory. From chap. 7, v. 2 of the note-book
> of Walter Distelhorst. Louisville [1946?] 37 leaves. 29 cm. (LC card
> 47-28337*).
> Organization: Typescript book organized into
> (1) an alphabetical index of composers,
> (2) paragraphs on composers and their works in chronological order,
> (3) composers without dates in alphabetical order,
> (4) compositions listed with their composers by ensembles,
> (5) list of miscellaneous works, mostly in ms. form, produced by composers
> in Hollywood.
>
> Material largely superseded by clarinet music bibliographies of Errante,
> Gee,
> Gillespie, Heim, Opperman, and Wilkins.
>
> End of story, I think.
> MB
>
> Michael Bryant
> Homepage: The Constant Clarinet
> www.bryant14.demon.co.uk
>
> Errare humanum est
> Nec cede malis
>
> telephone and fax +44 (0) 20 8390 3236
>
> Michael Bryant
> Homepage: The Constant Clarinet
> www.bryant14.demon.co.uk
>
> Errare humanum est
> Nec cede malis
>
> telephone and fax +44 (0) 20 8390 3236
>
>
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