Klarinet Archive - Posting 000268.txt from 2006/08

From: "catkeel" <catkeel@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Brigham Young University Clarinet quarete
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:21:29 -0400

Its channel 9403 on the Dish network. I also ran across it and eventho I`m a
sax player I enjoyed it very much.They have a lot of music with the Morman
Tabernacle choir and all.
Bob Davis

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From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
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Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 4:56 PM
Subject: RE: [kl] Brigham Young University Clarinet quarete

> 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.
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> From: Michael H. Graff [mailto:mhgraff@-----.net]
> Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 1:10 PM
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> Subject: RE: [kl] Brigham Young University Clarinet quarete
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> Can you tell us what TV station you found these performances?
> Sounds like a
> good one to track on Tivo.
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> Thanks for sharing.
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> Mike Graff
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> From: dnleeson [mailto:dnleeson@-----.net]
> Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 3:22 PM
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> Subject: [kl] Brigham Young University Clarinet quarete
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.)
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Dan Leeson
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