Klarinet Archive - Posting 000538.txt from 2004/09

From: "Chuck Currie" <reedguy@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Bela Fleck & Edgar Meyer
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:13:41 -0400

At the risk of incensing purists....saxophone quartet arrangements of =
Bach
sound wonderful, and my favorite version of his Toccata & Fugue in D =
minor
is for Clarinet Choir. My friend Olga Van Kranendonk is a cellist with =
the
world renowned original instrument baroque orchestra, Tafelmusik, and =
she is
enthusiastic about Bach transcriptions. The great baritone saxophonist,
Todd Oxford, has recorded some of the Bach solo cello sonatas and Olga =
gave
it the nod of approval.

Bela has also recorded an entire album of transcriptions for banjo,
Perpetual Motion. It includes Bach, Scarlatti, Chopin, Debussy,
Beethoven....and Paganini's Moto Perpetuo. A tour de force. Bela had a
massage therapist on hand daily during rehearsals and recording!

OK...one more. Eddie Daniels recorded Vivaldi's Four Seasons, playing =
the
solo violin part at the ORIGINAL PITCH. I know, just because one can do =
it
(unbelievable enough), doesn't mean one should!

Chuck Currie
Sax Noir Studio
www.saxnoir.com
reedguy@-----.net
604 254-9625
604 970-2694
2105 E 3rd Avenue
Vancouver, BC
V5N 1H9
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-----Original Message-----
From: Patricia A. Smith [mailto:arlyss1@-----.net]=20
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 3:03 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Bela Fleck & Edgar Meyer

Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:

>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."
>
> =20
>

There are a LOT worse things to listen to on banjo! Such as Dueling=20
Banjos: the Theme from Deliverance. I am SOOOOO sick of that...I hope=20
to not hear it again in this lifetime. Or even the next one...

Patricia Smith

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