Klarinet Archive - Posting 000221.txt from 2009/10

From: "Bill Daniluk" <bdaniluk@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] New clarinet composition
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:42:07 -0400

I would guess "not", as the following extract suggests. Everything else is
descriptive. The only positive comments were about the virtuosity of Mr.
Krakauer and the Orion quartet. I wouldn't think that madness induced by
monotony is a positive comment, but maybe that's just me...
BD

'...After a brief string quartet arrangement of a song (from a cycle
celebrating sex) comes an extended finale - called "Magyar Madness," like
the work as a whole - that makes even heavier use of a four-note descent,
usually as part of a longer descent. At a certain point the monotony did
indeed engender something like madness ...'

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Leeson [mailto:dnleeson@-----.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 11:36 AM
To: Klarinet
Subject: [kl] New clarinet composition

Today's NY Times reviews the first performance of a work by David del
Tredici, entitled, "Magyar Madness" for clarinet and string quartet. The
clarinetists was David Krakauer.

It's hard to tell from the review if the reviewer (James Oestreich) liked or
hated the piece. The review should be on the NY Times website.

Dan Leeson

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