Klarinet Archive - Posting 000272.txt from 2004/02

From: johng@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 16 Feb 2004 21:15:01 -0000 Issue 5067
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:21:11 -0500

> >There is a new free duet with clarinet on my JB
Linear
> >Music web site at http://www.jb-linear-music.com I
am offering
> >free sheet music for visitors there. Today you will
> >find "Pickles and Peppers Rag" (1906) by Adeline
> >Shepard, arranged for clarinet and bassoon duet.
> >
> >
> Nice arrangement!
>
> btw, can you tell us anything about the composer,
Adeline Shepard?
I
> noticed the date on the work, and became quite
curious.
>
> Patricia Smith

Adeline Shepard was born in 1885 in Iowa. Her "Pickles
and Peppers
Rag" was published in 1906 and was adopted as the
campaign song for
the William Jennings Bryan presidential campaign.
Apparently the song
didn't help William. She was 23 at the time. Family
responsibilites
intervened and she never published anything else.
Pickles and Peppers
sold 2 million sheet music copies by the end of 1908!
Adeline died in
1950, and was known as a fun-living and spirited woman
- much like the
music that came from her pen. -John

JB Linear Music
301 NW 94th St.
Vancouver, WA 98665
web site: http://www.jb-linear-music.com
Music you've always wanted. FREE MUSIC TO DOWNLOAD ON
THE WEBSITE.
CHANGED EVERY TWO WEEKS!

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