Klarinet Archive - Posting 001410.txt from 2004/03

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Richard Strauss concertino for clarinet, bassoon, string orchestra and harp
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 07:32:58 -0500

Patricia,

Saints of all faiths and none - which I am sure was implied.

Moral greatness is not confined to the religious (nor, for those worried
about my reasons for posting, excluded from the religious).

Matthew

-----Original Message-----
From: Patricia A. Smith [mailto:arlyss1@-----.net]
Sent: 27 March 2004 01:09
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Richard Strauss concertino for clarinet, bassoon,
string orchestra and harp

Dan Leeson wrote:

> The man for whom Struass wrote this work was Hugo Burghauser and I
> knew him. He was one of the bravest and most remarkable men I ever
met.
>
> <Snipped for space, but read in its entirety>
>
> The last time I played Elektra, it was with the San Francisco
> opera and, as I played it, I thought of this gentle, kind, brave, and
> righteous man. It was later that I decided to plant a tree in his
> memory.

Dear Dan and klarinet list,

Hugo Burghauser was, indeed, a great man. It is of such moral fabric
that the saints of all faiths are made. Thank you, Dan, for sharing his

story with us.

Patricia Smith

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