Klarinet Archive - Posting 000675.txt from 2004/01

From: "Buckman, Nancy" <nebuckman@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] looking for a good chamber piece for flute, clarinet & piano.
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:48:49 -0500

Dan,

Is the cl/bass arrangement a Southern arrangement and do you know if it =
is still available? I am interested it as a performance possibility.

Nancy

Nancy E. Buckman, CPO, AFO, Technical Assistant
School of Health Professions, Wellness and Physical Education
Anne Arundel Community College
Arnold, MD 21012-1895 USA
Phone 410-777-2316 Fax 410-777-2233
E-mail nebuckman@-----.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Leeson [mailto:leeson0@-----.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:04 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] looking for a good chamber piece for flute, clarinet &
piano.

Sue Raycraft wrote:
> Annie,
> There is an arrangement for flute, clarinet and piano
> of Mozart's Symfonie Concertante which was originally=20
> written for violin, viola, and orchestra. It's really a cool=20
> piece but rather long...of course just the first movement
> by itself might be enough?
> It was transcribed by Albert Andraud and published by=20
> Southern Music Publishers (San Antonio)
> Sue
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> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: "Anne Lenoir" <AnneLenoir@-----.net>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 7:31 AM
> Subject: [kl] looking for a good chamber piece for flute, clarinet & =
piano.
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>>My sister, flutist, Jane Lenoir, has invited me to perform with her in
>>San Francisco in early April with a newly formed chamber group, TPOAZ.
>>We have performed Ravel's "Introduction & Allegro" togeher back in
>>October in Palo Alto, and we are looking forward to the next concerts
>>coming in April.
>> I have been asked to play the Mozart Trio for clarinet, viola and
>>piano and the Bruch Double Concerto for clarinet, viola and string
>>orchestra. We are using a string quartet. Jane would like me to find a
>>good piece for flute, clarinet & piano. One of the concerts will be =
held
>>in a hospital that has a wonderful piano, so I am looking for a piece
>>that will be soothing to the spirits (and ears) of the patients in the
>>hospital. Anybody have any suggestions? I have written to Michael
>>Webster, a clarinetist who is married to a flutist. ANNIE
>>

Albert Andraud was the English hornist with the Cincinnati SO for years=20
and years and was there until at least 1940, maybe longer. He did many=20
transcriptions and published everything that came his way under the=20
banner of the Albert J. Andraud Wind Instrument Music Library. On his=20
death, Southern Music absorbed his entire collection and now publish it=20
under their name.

Whether his transcriptions are well or poorly done is not for me to say. =

But the Sinfonie Concertante for Violin and Viola requires a soprano=20
voice and a very distinguishable alto voice. There are arrnagements of=20
the work for clarinet and bass clarinet that serve the purpose of=20
presenting two instruments whose voices are clearly in different=20
registers. My view of the transcription for flute and clarinet is that=20
their registers are too close to permit the distinction required. Annie =

suggested that the work is too long. I think it's too short.

But like most transcriptions from orchestral form to piano form, there=20
is always the problem that the orchestral texture cannot be captured by=20
the piano. So the effects planned in the composer's head don't work=20
with a piano. But the work itself is so incredibly lovely that it could =

be done with a kazoo and didgerydoo and still sound lovely.

--=20
Dan Leeson
leeson0@-----.net

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