Klarinet Archive - Posting 000083.txt from 2007/10

From: "Curtis Bennett" <curtis.bennett@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Copland concerto
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:02:39 -0400

Hey Dan - you keep your facts and rational logic out of this. This is
the Internet!

On 10/8/07, Daniel Leeson <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:
> 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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Curtis Bennett

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