Klarinet Archive - Posting 000100.txt from 2004/12

From: "David Glenn" <davidglenn@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Re: [kl] Scaramouche
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 19:07:09 -0500

> On 4 Dec, "davidglenn" <davidglenn@-----.de> wrote:
>
> > Tony Pay wrote:
>
> > > The story I have is that it was an arrangement, listed as being for
> two
> > > pianos, of some of the incidental music Milhaud had written for a
> > > children's play by Vildrac (after Moliere) called 'Le Medecin Volant'.
> > > This play was first performed at the Theatre Scaramouche in Paris in
> 1937
> > > -- hence perhaps the title of the piece.
> > >
> > > How the saxophone comes into the story I don't know. Might it have
> been
> > > a significant part of the original instrumentation (cf La Creation du
> > > Monde, 1923)? Perhaps someone else has more details.
>
> > Scaramouche was written for Sigurd Rascher in 1939. Here's what I hear
> from
> > Carina Rascher: She tells me that her father Sigurd was forced to
> emmigrate
> > from Germany in 1939 and for his protection, an obituary was published.
> > Otherwise, he was afraid the Nazis would chase him down. Milhaud had
> > written Scaramouche originally for Mr. Rascher as a saxophone solo with
> > orchestra but upon seeing the obituary, made a new version for two
> pianos.
> > It wasn't until 1952 in Aspen, Colorado that Rascher met Milhaud again
> > where the composer was conducting at a festival.
>
> Whether this is true awaits final corroboration, but it's not what appears
> in
> Grove, and at least one other source has it round the other way:
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I'll forward this to Carina Rascher and see what she can tell us about it.
David

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