Klarinet Archive - Posting 000201.txt from 2010/09

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Hovhaness: Meditation on Orpheus for orchestra.
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:43:02 -0400

Right. Gerry had not yet gotten into the NY Phil. by that time. But he was
a sensational trumpet player.

Dan
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From: "Strum, Chuck" <strum@-----.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Hovhaness: Meditation on Orpheus for orchestra.

> Dan,
> You were thinking of Gerard Schwarz?
>
> Chuck Strum
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Leeson [mailto:dnleeson@-----.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 2:53 PM
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> Subject: Re: [kl] Hovhaness: Meditation on Orpheus for orchestra.
>
> In any orchestra conducted by Hovhaness, one needed to make an effort to
> ignore him. He was an Olympic class bad conductor. His favorite thing was
> to extend his arms and shake them. I 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. Gerrry what's his name (trumpet, former conductor
> of the Seattle orchestra) was on that recording too. So was Cohen, now in
> Cleveland, and lots of others.
>
> Dan Leeson
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> From: "Clinton F. Nieweg" <proofferr@-----.net>
> To: <klarinet@-----.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 11:14 AM
> Subject: [kl] Hovhaness: Meditation on Orpheus for orchestra.
>
>
>> 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. He 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. I was so busy
>> looking
>> at the beautiful women that I lost my place and never came in. The
>> orchestra was on stage and the dancers were in front of us. After the
>> dance
>>
>> was over, the 7 dancers went to the very front of the stage and took a
>> BOW.
>> It was a magnificent view. I don't remember the piece, which was written
>> by
>>
>> Hovhaness. It had something to do with Orpheus.
>>
>>
>>
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