Klarinet Archive - Posting 000220.txt from 2004/04

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Pulitzer: Unlisted Non-Winners
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:25:01 -0400

At 04:40 PM 4/14/2004 -0400, Nancy E. Buckman wrote:
>Matthew,
>
>Bear doesn't need my defense, but I am giving it anyway. What experience
>do you have with his music? Every time that he has posted that he has
>something new, I have taken the time to ask for copies and have spent
>considerable time learning his music. No, he isn't Mozart, but since when
>did Mozart ever win a Pulitzer? I can assure you that it takes a great
>amount of skill to write the pieces of his that I have played, in addition
>to many practice hours to master playing his style of writing. And if you
>are on any other lists, there are a number of them that have people
>playing his pieces too. I have a favorite, "Flitter Critters", that I am
>quite certain would give many on this list a workout, and that would
>include you. His compositions have given me an understanding of the art
>of the fugue that I never had. Don't be so ready to close your mind
>simply because the signature isn't Mozart's.

Unfortunately, the rest of us have not had the opportunity to even HEAR any
of Bear's works, much less PLAY them. I, for one, would LOVE to see an MP3
or MIDI file posted someplace where we could hear and judge for
ourselves. The verbal descriptions just don't make it clear what they
would sound like.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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