Klarinet Archive - Posting 000264.txt from 2006/08
From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Brigham Young University Clarinet quarete
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 16:58:08 -0400
It is BYU's own TV station which happens to be carried by my
carrier. It makes no sense for me to say that it was channel 182
(if that is correct -- I'm not sure) because that is only
arbitrarily assigned by COMCAST. Sorry I can't be of more help.
Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net
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From: Michael H. Graff [mailto:mhgraff@-----.net]
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 1:10 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Brigham Young University Clarinet quarete
Can you tell us what TV station you found these performances?
Sounds like a
good one to track on Tivo.
Thanks for sharing.
Mike Graff
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From: dnleeson [mailto:dnleeson@-----.net]
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 3:22 PM
To: klarinet@-----. org
Subject: [kl] Brigham Young University Clarinet quarete
Last evenine, the programs were so boring that I wandered through
the channels looking for something to watch. And I fell on a
little miracle.
There, I watched and heard a performance of the Schindelmeisser
concerto for four clarinets being executed on the Brigham Young
University channel, with piano accompaniment. The clarinet
players were all faculty at the University except for one who was
the chairman of the music department. Another was a sax and
clarinet faculty member, a third a sax faculty member (though he
played very fine clarinet), and the fourth was the official
clarinet faculty at the university. I thought that the clarinet
teacher at BYU was a woman, but it is clear that I must be
mistaken or else this was a very old TV tape.
I have not heard the Schindelmeisser since I played it some 25
years ago. It's a charming but not fantastically distinguished
piece of music, somewhat akin to the Waterson Grand Quartet for
Clarinets. (Parentheticallyl, I still have an outstanding wager
that no group for 4 players can play through the work for the
first time without stopping to laugh, sometimes quite
hysterically.)
The piece has an interesting history. It is a real concerto from
the time of the first half of the 19th century, but whose
orchestral accompaniment has been lost. A German composer
reconstructed it and I bought it, which is how we came to play in
some 25 years ago. I donated the whole thing to the Clarinet
library, score, parts, and all. Someone told me that it is
available from Musica Rara with a piano accompaniment, but I
can't vouch for that. Musica Rara publishes a lot of rare stuff,
so it would not be surprising that they did this one, too.
After the performance (live with an audience) was over, the BYU
symphony came on and it was very impressive for a college
orchestra, particularly when it is in an isolated area of the US.
Where does BYU get its talent? I would presume mostly Utah, but
maybe I underestimate its drawing power. They played Brahms 3,
Enesco's Romanian rhapsody (which is an orchestral tour de
force), and the overture to the Marriage of Figaro. It is not the
Julliard orchestra to be sure, but for the geography it was first
rate.
Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net
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