Klarinet Archive - Posting 000135.txt from 2006/09

From: "catkeel" <catkeel@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: concerti
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:14:13 -0400

Thats what I hated about orchestra playing.Some of that stuff is so long and
it gets to be work.I`ve played viola in orchestras and alto sax in concert
bands.At this stage of my life I`ll take a band over an orchestra any day.
Strings play all the time but the saxes have nice long rests.
Bob D

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From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 7:16 PM
Subject: RE: [kl] Re: concerti

> They are all lovely pieces. You are preaching to the converted
> when you speak of Grainger, Vaughn Williams, and Bennett.
> Grainger's pieces are often 5 to 15 minutes. The English Folk
> Song Suite is the same. The Bennett Suite of Old American Dances
> is 20 minutes. The Hindemith is 35 mins. and should have been
> longer. But I have not played it in years so maybe I'm imagining
> its length.
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> Mahler 3 is an hour. The overture to somebody and Ludmilla is 10
> miutes.
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> We are not talking the same breadth and scope. I'm not
> criticizing band music, just pointing out that it has very few
> good BIG pieces.
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> Dan Leeson
> DNLeeson@-----.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Roberts [mailto:timr@-----.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 3:14 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Re: concerti
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> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:58:33 -0700, "dnleeson"
> <dnleeson@-----.net>
> wrote:
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>>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?
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> 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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