Klarinet Archive - Posting 000519.txt from 2004/09

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: [kl] Bela Fleck & Edgar Meyer
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:17:17 -0400

Jeremy Schiffer wrote:

> If you don't have it, pick up a copy of
> "Music for Two" which is their CD.
> It comes with a free DVD of a behind the
> scenes look at their tour together. If nothing
> else, it's worthwhile to see two of the most
> talented musicians in the world struggling to
> learn passages of new pieces

Each to his or her own, of course, but now that I've watched & heard
them.... WOW !! 'New' music which is simultaneously avante garde and
tuneful and not unpleasantly weird.

The piece with which they struggle with is a round for banjo & double
bass in 15/8.

I couldn't help chuckling --- apropos of recent Klarinet comments about
Sabine Meyer substituting instruments --- that Fleck and Meyer played
some Bach and Beethoven on the DVD, and Fleck said (not verbatim, but as
best I can remember): "There's nothing wrong with playing Beethoven on
the banjo. Beethoven would've done it too if he could've."

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