Klarinet Archive - Posting 000022.txt from 2006/01

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Gran Partitttta (K. 361)
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 14:15:43 -0500

I have made such a stink in the literature about the work, that I
rarely see it performed with contrabassoon any longer.

I was asked on a list for bassoonists why I insisted the double
bass when the work "sounded infinitely better with a
contrabassoon."

Thinking to myself that this man has been delivered to me naked
by his enemies, I said, as sweetly as I could, "Well I think that
the work sounds infinitely better with two tenor saxophones in
place of the two bassoons."

And this shmuck says, "It does not sound infinitely better the
way you suggest. Only the way I suggest."

He has not been seen or heard from since. People who claim to
have a pipeline to the infinite generally don't live long.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Seely [mailto:oseely@-----.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 10:37 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Gran Partitttta (K. 361)

I'd like to know who is going to play it as it was written: For
12 wind
instruments and a double bass. Who's up to it?? 8-)

Oliver

>I didn't think we would be the only ones to be performing the
Grand Partidta
>this year. We may be the last ones (in June and July). Thanks
Jonathan for
>your questions and thanks Dan for your wise answers. I have also
duly noted,
>printed out and sent the emails on to the other ensemble
members. I'm
>playing the first basset horn by the way. In some of the
concerts, we are
>doing a basset horn trio (Figaro Divertimento) as well. It will
be heaven
>for bassethornists!
>David

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