Klarinet Archive - Posting 000181.txt from 2006/12

From: "Jason Alder" <alderjas@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Piazolla Quartet for Clarinets
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:22:23 -0500

> I suspect, but do not know, that this clarinet quartet you are
>speaking about is an arrangement of one of his works for
>accordion,

This may be true, as the piece uses several melodies I often hear used
in Tango songs.

>which has a different name in South American

err... Spanish? ;)

>It's something like "bandarion," and I'm probably not even close.

Close... it's a bandoneon

Here's a recording of the arrangement being played at the 2002
Michigan State contemporary clarinet festival.... (33Mb)
http://www.exchangebureaumusic.com/Jason/stuff/piazzolla-%20histoire%20du%20tango.zip

Maxine Ramey, Linda Bartley, Linda Cionitti, and Keith Lemmons are the
clarinetists.

~Jason

29 Dec 2006 22:01:01 -0000, klarinet-digest-help@-----.org
<klarinet-digest-help@-----.org >:
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> ------------------------------
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> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:28:45 -0500
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> From: "Bill Foss" < billfoss47@-----.net>
> Subject: Piazolla Quartet for Clarinets
> Message-ID: <000801c72b66$6965db50$0401a8c0@OEMcomputer>
>
> 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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