Klarinet Archive - Posting 000677.txt from 2004/01

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] looking for a good chamber piece for flute, clarinet & piano.
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:35:58 -0500

Buckman, Nancy wrote:

> 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

I have no idea who publishes it or even when it was published. I think
I played it at least 20 years ago.

Sorry.

Dan

>
> 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 written for
>> violin, viola, and orchestra. It's really a cool piece but rather
>> long...of course just the first movement by itself might be enough?
>> It was transcribed by Albert Andraud and published by Southern
>> Music Publishers (San Antonio) Sue
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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 and years and was there until at least 1940, maybe longer. He
> did many transcriptions and published everything that came his way
> under the banner of the Albert J. Andraud Wind Instrument Music
> Library. On his death, Southern Music absorbed his entire collection
> and now publish it 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 voice and a very distinguishable alto voice. There are
> arrnagements of the work for clarinet and bass clarinet that serve
> the purpose of presenting two instruments whose voices are clearly in
> different registers. My view of the transcription for flute and
> clarinet is that 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 is always the problem that the orchestral texture cannot be
> captured by the piano. So the effects planned in the composer's head
> don't work 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.
>

--
Dan Leeson
leeson0@-----.net

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