Klarinet Archive - Posting 000275.txt from 2003/12

From: "Ken Wolman" <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bounced mail
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:04:17 -0500

Karin Berman wrote:
> Hi Gary
> I got your mail too, and also only signed on a few days ago.
> Since I am at it now, see if anyone can help me with this unusual request. I
> was surfing the net re clarinets and somehow got to the Vandoren web page.
> As I opened this page, the most beautiful and very familiar piece of music
> started to play. I know this piece very well, but cannot place it at all.

I just got it. I think it's something called "The Dying Swan." The
music is Camille Saint-Saens. It's an accompaniment for a ballerina set
piece that used to be performed by any number of top female dancers, I
believe beginning with Anna Pavlova early in the 20th century, maybe
before. The last I remember is Maya Plisetskaya of the Bolshoi, but the
tradition appears to have gone on. The solo instrument is either a
soprano sax or a clarinet. Really hard to tell sometimes! But you're
right, it's absolutely exquisite.

Why am I a sucker for French music?:-)

> Anyone out there who can relieve my distress???
> Karin B (a "mature" clarinet STUDENT. One is never too old to learn )

Hope I helped. Like you I'm an adult (ha!) private student, and yes,
it's a weird experience. I feel like the guy in that Moliere play who's
shocked to find out he's been speaking prose all his life and didn't
know it.

Ken
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Kenneth Wolman
Proposal Development Department
Room SW334
Sarnoff Corporation
609-734-2538

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