Klarinet Archive - Posting 000198.txt from 2010/09

From: Jennifer Jones <helen.jennifer@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Hovhaness: Meditation on Orpheus for orchestra.
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:29:49 -0400

MMM. I just skimmed the wikipedia article on Hovhanness. I think
ignorance may have been bliss. Though I was not a fan of Mysterious
Mountain, the piece was ok and it at least kept my fingers and mind
busy and out of trouble. The days when I played orchestra, collegium
musicum on top of a full undergraduate load and elective research! I
think I needed a lot of work to keep me out of trouble.

-Jennifer

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Strum, Chuck <strum@-----.com> wrote:
> Dan,
> You were thinking of Gerard Schwarz?
>
> From: Dan Leeson [mailto:dnleeson@-----.net]
> In any orchestra conducted by Hovhaness, one needed to make an effort to =
ignore him. =A0He was an Olympic class bad conductor. His favorite thing wa=
s to extend his arms and shake them. =A0I don't know what he wanted but he =
did that from time to time. Somewhere I'm on a recording of his called Alan=
Hovhaness's wind music. =A0Gerrry what's his name (trumpet, former conduct=
or of the Seattle orchestra) was on that recording too. =A0So was Cohen, no=
w in Cleveland, and lots of others.
>
> From: "Clinton F. Nieweg" <proofferr@-----.net>
>> Dan, if this was the work, you were supposed to be meditating!
>> [Hovhaness
>> was married 6 times!]
>> Hovhaness: Op. 155
>> Meditation on Orpheus for orchestra.
>> Written in 1957-58. 14min.
>> 3333- 4331- timp perc- hp celesta -strings
>> pub: CFPeters EP 6109 score $10.95
>> Orchestral Material Available for Rental
>>
>> From: "Dan Leeson"
>> Well, seeing something about Hovhaness was a shocker. =A0He conducted a
>> program in which I took part and which also had a dance group consisting
>> of 6 women, 1 man, all naked except for tiny g-strings. =A0I was so busy
>> looking at the beautiful women that I lost my place and never came in. =
=A0The
>> orchestra was on stage and the dancers were in front of us. =A0After the
>> dance was over, the 7 dancers went to the very front of the stage and to=
ok a
>> BOW. It was a magnificent view. =A0I don't remember the piece, which wa=
s written
>> by Hovhaness. =A0It had something to do with Orpheus.
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