Klarinet Archive - Posting 000191.txt from 2005/02

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Opening of Debussy's "Jeux" for orchestra
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:52:25 -0500

On 6 Feb, Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net> wrote:

> I just for the first time got round to getting a recording of Debussy's
> ballet score Jeux. The opening chord sequence sounds eerily familiar and
> I'm not sure where I've heard it before---and I'm sure it was in another
> work. It's possible it shows up in Pelleas et Melisande but I was
> thinking of Wagner or possibly Stravinsky ... ?

It does sound like Paul Dukas's 'Sorcerers Apprentice' without the twiddles
-- was that what you were thinking of?

Tony
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