Klarinet Archive - Posting 000151.txt from 2005/06

From: "Patricia A. Smith" <arlyss1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] hardest music?
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 17:04:35 -0400

Fred Jacobowitz wrote:

> BUT, technique is only one part (and often not the most important
> one!) of music. Musically I think the most challenging one is either
> the Mozart Concerto or the Brahms Eb Sonata; the first because it can
> simply be played so many ways and the second because the piano part is
> as important as the clarinet part and both players have to be
> musically in sync.

You make an excellent point here.

For technique and musicality, I suffered the Copland Concerto, and would
gladly suffer it again; there is always more to learn, in any real work
of art. Copland's music is like a bug that bites once; once bitten,
well, I know I'm addicted for life!

I agree with you wholeheartedly on Brahms. The most difficult piece of
musical work I ever performed in public was the Brahms First Sonata. I
love that piece of music, and would do it again in a heart beat.

On a tangential subject to Copland: Did Charles Ives ever write even a
short piece for clarinet?

Patricia Smith

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