Klarinet Archive - Posting 000322.txt from 2005/03

From: <tony-w@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Nationality and Music
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 05:08:49 -0500

Richard Todd in 'The Column' calls this music 'lightweight' -
http://opuspocus.ca/reviews/column/column020215.htm And goes on to suggest
that the CD costs about as much as a McDonalds meal! It is a review of the
same recording which was played on radio.
Tony W

> > I was reminded of this just now, when I turned on the radio to hear a
> > rather jolly, quirky piece of music I didn't recognise. "Hmmm, sounds
> > French" I thought. "Poulenc? Milhaud?". It turned out to be
> > Souvenirs, Op 28, by Samuel Barber!
> > John Dablin
> > Aylesbury UK

> I believe this was Radio 3 Wed (today) about 8.50 am? I thought (I missed
> the announcement also) it may have come from an American pen, as there was
> quite a lot of colourful and romanctic orchestration about it. But I
thought
> not quite French - almost 'Hollywood'. I must look out for it again. I
> wonder if SB composed any film music.
> Tony W

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