Klarinet Archive - Posting 000098.txt from 2007/09

From: "Kimberly Paternoster" <kim@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Neilsen Concerto Puzzelment
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:25:20 -0400

Fred,

I'm with you on everything you said. While I worked on Nielsen for a full
year for my recital, I thought it really was a very yucky piece. It's got
it's moments, but it's just NOT Mozart or Copland (all my opinion of
course). I think that's probably why a lot of people don't care to learn it.
For me, at that age, I worked on it just to "show off". If I could do it
over, I probably would have gone with something completely different (but
nearly as difficult).

Anyway... All my opinion regardless.... ;)

kim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Jacobowitz [mailto:fbjacobo@-----.net]
> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 10:43 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Neilsen Concerto Puzzelment
>
> Sean,
> I respectfully beg to differ. While this work has
> wonderful technical challenges and a great story line behind
> it, I find it frankly, ugly. I guess I'm just not that much a
> fan of dark, dissonant northern European music.
> I think that most people would agree that the best
> concerto we have is obviously the Mozart K622. After that,
> there is plenty of room for discussion. My personal favorite
> 20th c. concerto is the Copland, followed by the Francaix
> (talk about technical challenges!). I also recommend
> listening to the Uhl concerto, which almost nobody knows,
> unfortunately and the Manevich (which is unfortunately, not
> available).
> And, if you want dissonant, there's the absolutely wonderful work of
> genius: the Corigliano concerto!
> LET THE FLAME WAR BEGIN!!!!!! ;-)
>
> Fred Jacobowitz
>
> Kol Haruach Klezmer Band
> Ebony and Ivory Duo
> On Sep 22, 2007, at 11:28 AM, Sean Osborn wrote:

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