Klarinet Archive - Posting 000105.txt from 2009/08

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fbjacobo@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Solo pieces by living women composers
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:19:36 -0400

Danyel,
I think the main reason for these kinds of 'theme' concerts is that
it appeals to a specific audience, so the hope is that those people
(who do not usually attend concerts), as well as the general
population (who normally do), will attend. More warm bodies in the
audience. At least, I think that's the rationale. I might add that is
makes programming easier, as there are fewer pieces to choose from,
though I suspect that is just a fortuitous side-effect

Fred Jacobowitz

CASE CLOSED Musical Instrument Case Repair Service
Kol Haruach Klezmer Band
Ebony and Ivory Duo

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
~Doug Floyd

On Aug 13, 2009, at 7:33 PM, corvo di bassetto wrote:

> Fred,
> of cause that's fine, all women composers, all Jewish (Brandwein
> did that all the time, didn't he?), all French Opera, great. But
> how about programs including pieces by "Arian" or by "Caucasian"
> composers only (we unfortunately had the former in Germany for
> years and you had the latter in the US even longer)? Or an
> Orchestra made up entirely of blond, blue-eyed 6 feet tall
> "Herrenmenschen" (lit. "Sir" (male)-"people")? Sure, there are good
> pieces written by blond people (though not very many, for whatever
> reasons) and -- more recently -- by female composers, but it's mad
> statistics to argue that lack of hair pigments or presence of
> mammary glands was a feature of the music or that black hair was a
> prerequisite for writing counterpoint. Hence I don't give a ---
> about the ethnic, let alone biological background of an artist. If
> it turned out Wagner was actually a baboon, I might concede: for a
> baboon it's not so bad.
>
> best
> danyel
>
>
> On Aug 13, 2009, at 7:38 PM, Fred Jacobowitz wrote:
>
>> Danyel,
>> Why are the two ideas incompatible. There are many WONDERFUL
>> pieces by female composers. Easily enough to make up a first-rate
>> recital. And it's a great hook - that is, inducement to get people
>> to come to the concert, including those who wouldn't normally do
>> so. I once did a recital of all encore pieces! A lot of people
>> came to that one. Ditto Jewish composers, opera music (e.g.
>> concert paraphrases like the Bassi), etc.
>>
>> Fred Jacobowitz
>>
>> CASE CLOSED Musical Instrument Case Repair Service
>> Kol Haruach Klezmer Band
>> Ebony and Ivory Duo
>>
>> You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
>> ~Doug Floyd
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 13, 2009, at 5:34 AM, corvo di bassetto wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It makes me mad that concerts are no longer programed to include
>>> good music but such written by a specific sociological or even
>>> biological in-group.
>>>
>>> Best
>>> danyel
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 13, 2009, at 4:21 AM, Enid Blount Press wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> I've been asked to play 4 solo clarinet pieces by women
>>>> composers in London
>>>> on a short mini-recital, and I have never had a women composers-
>>>> focused
>>>> recital. I'm playing a new solo work by Julie Harting, from New
>>>> York,
>>>> called Coagula, which I have recorded and which is a longer solo
>>>> piece, but
>>>> to make up the other 14 minutes, I need 3 other composers!
>>>> Though the
>>>> festival may provide me with some choices, I'm wondering if
>>>> anyone has
>>>> suggestions of good, short-ish pieces that are learnable by
>>>> early November
>>>> that are by living women composers... Thanks very much in
>>>> advance! Enid
>>>> Blount Press (please feel free to email me directly).
>>>>
>>>> Enid Blount Press
>>>> New York, NY
>>>> enidblount@-----.edu
>>>>
>>>>
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