Klarinet Archive - Posting 000084.txt from 2007/11

From: Glenn Kantor <klarinet@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Original Ragtime Piano Pieces Arranged for Band
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:24:08 -0500

It was Stravinsky (and probably others) who said, about Vivaldi, that:

"'He began 500 concertos and never achieved anything in them. So, he kept
trying over and over again without ever quite succeeding.''

Glenn B Kantor (GBK)

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From: "Daniel Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 7:53 PM
Subject: RE: [kl] Original Ragtime Piano Pieces Arranged for Band

> In support of your statement about the lack of variety in Vivaldi
> concerti,
> there was a wonderful comment that said, "Vivaldi did not write 127
> concerti
> for violin. What he did was write one concert for violin 127 times."
>
> Dan Leeson
> dnleeson@-----.net
> SKYPE: dnleeson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Roberts [mailto:timr@-----.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 3:11 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Original Ragtime Piano Pieces Arranged for Band
>
>
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:44:57 -0800, "Daniel Leeson"
> <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:
>> The arrangements are impressive. And one can be made to understand how
> this
>> kind of music must have knocked the socks off of musical America at that
>> time, so head and shoulders were they above the pap of waltzes, polkas,
> and
>> schottisches that were played as incidental music at band concerts of the
>> era.
>
> Yes, I agree. What I find so very impressive about rags is that,
> despite the very strict construction formula that rags follow, one finds
> such an incredible variety of combinations and expressions of emotion.
> I have the collected works of Joplin sitting on piano at all times. As
> I play through them, it's clear that these are all the same genre of
> music, but it's also clear that each piece has a unique personality.
>
> Indeed, I would go out on a limb to assert that there is more variety in
> the 70 or so rags of Scott Joplin then there is in the billion or so
> concerti of Vivaldi.
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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