Klarinet Archive - Posting 000078.txt from 2007/10

From: "Daniel Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Copland concerto
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:42:58 -0400

The response below, which says, "I think he'd like it," has a very soft
underbelly.

The fact is that no one has any idea of Copland's reaction to the clarinet
concerto played on a soprano sax. He might like it. He might hate it. But
one can make no conclusions on how Copland would react based on how the
would react.

It's a variation on the argument about using a contrabassoon in the Gran
Partitta. I very often hear the statement, "Mozart would have loved a
contrabassoon in that piece." To which I invariably responsd, "Mozart would
have loved a tenor sax in that piece." Neither assertion as any valid
information content.

Dan Leeson
dnleeson@-----.net
SKYPE: dnleeson

-----Original Message-----
From: Forest Aten [mailto:forestaten@-----.com]
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 12:03 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Copland concerto

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curtis Bennett [mailto:curtis.bennett@-----.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 1:59 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Copland concerto
>
> I'm pretty sure Copland just rolled over in his grave.
>

I think he'd like it!!

Forest

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