Klarinet Archive - Posting 000326.txt from 2005/03

From: <tony-w@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Nationality and Music
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 07:36:13 -0500

Thanks - very interesting.
TW
> >I wonder if SB composed any film music.
> > Tony W
>
> No, but his concert music has been used in various films. (Platoon, The
> Elephant Man, El Norte, Lorenzo's Oil)
> "Souvenirs" is ballet music, BTW.
> Those who want to criticize Barber as "lightweight" should listen to a
> good recording of his Piano Sonata (Op. 26, 1949). The old Odyssey LP
> recording by William Masselos, where it is paired with Copland's Piano
> Variations, should do the trick. There is also a new disc (released
> September 14, 2004 on Hyperion) by Marc-André Hamelin, which I have not
> yet heard, that pairs the Barber sonata with Charles Ives' Concord Sonata.

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