Klarinet Archive - Posting 000428.txt from 2004/05

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Long dead composers and OTHER musical mysteries!; was, Rosen on text and performance
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 14:32:15 -0400

Sorry. Your note on my book was lower in my stack.

It will be out by around July 1, I plan to have a splash about
it because I want to do book tours and some technical talks on
the problems of writing a fiction book that has to have a great
deal of technical and historical accuracy to support the story.
Those tours are going to be WITHOUT CHARGE because my main
interest is generating interest and sales of my book. So book
signings will also be part of it. But I don't plan to hawk the
book, just talk about Mozart, the upcoming 250th anniversary of
his birth, the issues associated with his manuscripts including
paper, ink, watermarks, etc., and instrumental issues since the
book is all about the clarinet concerto and the quintet.

So all of you, the southwest tour (make a rectancle with San
Francisco, San Diego, San Antonio, and Amarillo as the area to be
covered) start thinking how your school or library or book
discussion group or music loving society might be interested in
the talk. You don't even have to buy me a pizza. But you have to
invite me and fit in the travel schedule. I'm not going to show
up and start talking in the middle of the main street. There
also has to be some guarantee of a reasonable audience because
I'm not going to want to spend a fortune and talk to two people.

I plan to try and get invited to the big universities in LA, San
Diego, Phoenix, Tucson, and points east. As for the SF Bay area,
I'm doing the SF Conservatory, UCSanta Cruz, San Jose, and Santa
Clara.

The tours of the southeast, northwest, and northeast will come
later. There is no playing, just talking, and I know how to work
an audience.

When I get a schedule for my second book (probably around
December), I'll expand the talk to include those who have an
interest in choral music because the subject of the second book
is the history of the Mozart Requiem. It's non fiction.

Both books are written for the quarter millenium celebration of
Mozart's birth which takes place in 2006.

I'll have a web site where you can post comments, and I expect
you to buy and read the book.

Expect the announcement around July 1.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Patricia A. Smith [mailto:arlyss1@-----.net]
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 9:45 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] Long dead composers and OTHER musical mysteries!;
was,
Rosen on text and performance

Dan Leeson wrote:

>A fast road to hell occurs whenever one makes a presumption
about
>what Mahler (or anyone else) wanted or didn't want. Even he did
>not know half the time what he wanted, so how can we at this
>distance make presumptions about it.
>
>One can do nothing but get in trouble by such speculation.
>
>
Dagnabbit, why do these people all have to be dead, and unable to
answer
these and other important performance questions!

Seriously, Dan, any recent news concerning your Mozart mystery? I
never
buy books anymore - can't afford it, but I'm gonna bite the
bullet & buy
yours!

I've been dropping in and out and in again on the list (in
between
yelling at my own kids and "herding cats" - read substitute
teaching -
at the local middle schools), hoping to see that this book is
finally
out! I am an addict to mysteries, looking for a FIX! And one
that
involves either clarinets or bassett horns, and Mozart, well,
then, I
might even be inspired to lock my kids out of the house when my
clarinet
arrives home and practice addictively as well!

At any rate, this topic made me think about this sort of thing,
and I'm
not only curious about the "whodunnit" aspect of this mystery,
but also
about your characters:
I'm very curious as to whether you have any characters who have
an
aspect of their personality in which they wish to speculate on
the
Mozart mystery in your book as has been done in this thread and
many
others here on the list, without benefit of "hard" evidence, etc.
and
I'm interested in how you've dealt, fictionally, with them! I'm
also
wondering what other sorts of characters you've created, and how
closely
they perhaps fit to any sort of real personality quirks we come
upon
either online, or face to face, either in the clarinet world, or
elsewhere.

I know, this is veering on the off-topic; but I really do want to
read
this book. I apologize if I'm rehashing old stuff here...

Patricia Smith

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