Klarinet Archive - Posting 000064.txt from 2008/05

From: "Bill Foss" <billfoss47@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gnarly buttons
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 18:04:15 -0400

You are right Dan, it is a difficult piece.
I worked it up then decided that there was not enough music in it to justify
my performing it in public.

Perhaps just not my cup of tea.

Bill Foss
U.S. Army Retired
USC Aiken, Woodwind Professor
Director of Bands, Aiken Prep

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
To: "klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 11:46 AM
Subject: [kl] Gnarly buttons

> Yesterday, Apr. 12, the Classical TV network showed a performance of the
> beginning of John Adams Gnarly Buttons, with a small and eclectic
> orchestra
> accompanying the soloist, Andre Trouttel.
>
> While I was not favorably inclined to the piece, it is clearly a heavy
> piece
> of work for the clarinetist.
>
> Dan Leeson
> dnleeson@-----.net
> SKYPE: dnleeson
>
>
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