Klarinet Archive - Posting 000075.txt from 2011/03
From: richard.smith7@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Steamboat Bill Junior?
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:08:51 -0500
Not entirely sure what the question is, but I looked it up on the web and found thousands of references to the Magnus Lindberg score, one of which had this description:
Buster Keaton was one of the first stars of the silver screen and appears in the 1928 motion picture, Steamboat Bill Junior, one of the undoubted final highlights of silent film.
Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg was so affected by the stunning film, with its ambitious and iconic stunts, that in 1990 he wrote this terrific piece for Clarinet and Cello called Steamboat Bill Jr.. It is a colourful, four-movement work of spectral music, which hints at minimalism yet attempts to express the action and plot of the film in its eight-minute duration. This is the player's score, edited by Anssi Karttunen and set for Clarinet and Cello.
The first performance took place during a concert by the Toimii ensemble at the Warsaw Autumn festival in September, 1990.
Wikipedia says the movie was named for a popular song by Arthur Collins from 1911. Apparently it's the song Micky is whistling in Disney's "Steamboat Willy", and you can hear it on Youtube. It looks like you can download the original sheet music too. I can't tell because I'm working on a Blackberry at the moment and that site won't load.
Richard
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From: Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 09:33:25
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Subject: [kl] Steamboat Bill Junior?
Someone asked me to order Steamboat Bill Junior for Clarinet and Cello
but I cannot find a reference to who it was. If this rings a bell with
anyone on the list, please get in touch with me.
Thanks,
Gary
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