Klarinet Archive - Posting 000074.txt from 2003/08

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Concert Announcement
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 01:00:49 -0400

At 12:09 PM 8/4/2003 -0400, Allen J. Levin wrote:
>This sounds like a good old-fashioned program. I hope that it went well.
>
>I played the Kalinnikov in high school and was sufficiently impressed to
>look for a recording of the original "real" work. The only recording in
>the catalogue was by Kyril Kondrashin and the Moscow State Symphony. In
>those days (1963 - 65) no local store wanted to order an album from
>Russia. It took nearly two years to get it. It was worth it - I still
>play it. It is a very nice work - possibly my favorite Russian symphony.
>His 2nd and 3rd symphonies aren't as good, though.

I think it went well. Like many pieces I have played in my life, I did not
care for it at all when we first played through it, but it grew on me in
rehearsal. It would be interesting to hear it in the original.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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