Klarinet Archive - Posting 000147.txt from 2007/06

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bb Clarinet Duet with Concert Band
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:59:56 -0400

And don't forget, the full score of "Il Convegno" is available in
Finale 3.7 format at

http://www.csudh.edu/oliver/clarmusi/clarmusi.htm

Getting a microfiche of the manuscript of that work was one of my
sweet victories in the age of information. It is located in Rome in
a private archive. I think that I discovered its location in Grove,
but I'm not sure right now. A wonderfully cooperative graduate
student in Italian at UCSD took an internship with the Italian
Cultural Attache's office in Los Angeles and she promised to work
with me to get a copy of the manuscript. At the end of her 6-month
internship she apologized that we had gotten nowhere in our
attempt. So I poked around the web and discovered the Italian
clarinet discussion group. I joined and posted one message in
English with the subject line "I beg your indulgence." I described
what I had done, described where the archive was located and asked if
there might be a clarinet player in Rome who could go to the archive
and find out the status of my request. A fellow chemist and amateur
clarinetist with the very clarinet name of Cavallini wrote back about
two weeks later, apologizing for the delay, and said that he went to
the archive where it took him an hour to find the person who had been
assigned my request. I can only imagine the surprise on the face of
the archivist when my correspondent asked why his new-found friend in
southern California had not yet received a microfiche of the
requested work. My friend shepherded the manuscript from archive to
microfiche service and verified that it was sent to me. That was
about 4 years ago and I got right on the sequencing project. "Il
Convegno" is a delightful if very challenging work. I sight-read it
once with the Huntington Beach Concert Band. I played the first solo
clarinet part (of course!) and Ginny, our concert mistress, played
2nd (!). It is lots of fun to sight read, but this clarinetist is
not up to performing it, except perhaps before a group of forgiving
friends and family.

Another equally sweet victory was my quest to obtain a copy of
Bruch's autograph of the double concerto for Clarinet, Viola and
orchestra, but that's a story for another time.

Happy playing, all!

Oliver

my of the IAt 04:50 AM 6/21/2007, you wrote:
>Ponchielli: Il Convegno
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>Joze

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