Klarinet Archive - Posting 000173.txt from 2006/12

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Piazolla Quartet for Clarinets
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:38:53 -0500

Don't know the piece, but Piazzolla wrote masterful tangos for a
specialized kind of accordion used in South America. I heard a
concert that included one of his works and went mad for it. I
suspect, but do not know, that this clarinet quartet you are
speaking about is an arrangement of one of his works for
accordion, which has a different name in South American and also
different physicality. For example, it has buttons and not keys.
It's something like "bandarion," and I'm probably not even close.
But Piazzolla's writing is absolutely mesmerizing.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Foss [mailto:billfoss47@-----.net]
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 8:29 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] Piazolla Quartet for Clarinets

Can anyone tell me anything about this work:

Histoire Du Tango Clarinet Quartet by Astor Piazzolla ?

Thanks,

Bill Foss
US Army Retired
USC Aiken, Clarinet Professor
Director of Bands, Aiken Prep

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