Klarinet Archive - Posting 000131.txt from 2006/09

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: concerti
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:15:14 -0400

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:58:33 -0700, "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
wrote:

>Just look at the amount of music written during the 20th century
>and constrast that with how much of it we still continue to hear.
>Hindemith's music appears to be heading south. Less and less of
>it is played every year. The only piece that gets played
>frequently is the Symphony in B-flat for band, and that is only
>because the band literature of big, symphonic pieces with heft to
>them is still miniscule next to the orchestral literature. The
>only long term survivors of that music are Holst and John Phillip
>Sousa. Who else do you hear regularly today?
>

Grainger, Ralph Vaughn Williams, and Robert Russell Bennett come to
mind, although I'm not entirely sure their work falls under your
classification of "big, symphonic pieces".

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Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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