Klarinet Archive - Posting 000028.txt from 2008/02

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Can anyone identify Monsieur Loye?
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:10:31 -0500

The francophones among you folks are very forgiving. Thanks.

Ma m=E8re l'Oye is Ravel's ballet "Mother=20
Goose". You can read a bit more about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_M%C3%A8re_l'Oye

Now to decide if Loye was a Parisian clarinetist=20
or if the notation on the case meant Monsieur the Goose! 8-)

Oliver

At 09:57 AM 2/1/2008, you wrote:
>A story with mystery begins.....
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lelia Loban [mailto:lelialoban@-----.net]
> > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 11:45 AM
> > To: klarinet@-----.org
> > Subject: [kl] Can anyone identify Monsieur Loye?
> >
> > Does anyone know anything about an early 20th century French clarinet
> > player
> > named Loye? (I don't know his first name.) In July of 1921, he lived=
in
> > the Rue D'Asse in Paris. That month, he bought a pair of Buffet=
clarinets
> > in Bb and in A, with a double case and some other equipment, at the=
Evette
> > &
> > Schaeffer store in Paris. Google turned up nothing relevant. TIA!
> >
> > Lelia Loban
> >

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