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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2007-06-26 03:50
Check out "Segment 3" on the Public Radio broadcast of "A Prairie Home Companion". It's a piece by Peter Schickele, A.K.A. (PDQ Bach).
The piece is titled "Joy to the World Especially Out of Work Musicians" played by the Peter Schickele Ensemble.
The piece is scored for:
Piccolo
Eb Clarinet
English Horn
Baritone Saxophone
Contra Bassoon
and Gong
A lovely, delicate work, I'm sure you'll enjoy.
http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2006/12/23/index.shtml
JJM
Légère Artist
Clark W. Fobes Artist
Post Edited (2007-06-26 14:10)
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Author: rsholmes
Date: 2007-06-26 10:51
Nice piece... if you like that you might enjoy one from the old Hoffnung Music Festival recordings, Gordon Jacob's "Variations on Annie Laurie" for two contrabassoons, two contrabass clarinets [aha!], contrabass serpent, heckelphone, hurdy gurdy, and piccolo. (Good luck finding it though.)
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2007-06-26 11:42
Thanks for the link! There's also a lot of information about music for unusual instruments, mostly unsusually *large* instruments, on Grant Green's excellent Contrabass Maniacs page.
http://www.contrabass.com
Contra-clarinet players are well-represented in this mob! Lots of photos, too.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
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Author: jane84
Date: 2007-06-26 11:56
Anyone heard one of Albrechtsberger's concertos for Jew's harp, mandora and orchestra? Especially the cadenza is very interesting..
-jane
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Author: Phat Cat
Date: 2007-06-26 12:30
I heard the Schickele piece John refers to when it was originally broadcast during the holidays with John performing. It is clever and entertaining in the way of much of Schickele's music. Although it is a fun piece, I suspect that the parts are more difficult that the excellent performance made them sound.
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Author: Mike Clarinet
Date: 2007-06-27 12:40
Re. Gordom Jacob Annie Laurie variations:
Hoffnung's Music Festivals 3 cd set from EMI, catalogue number CMS 7 63302 2
These music festivals are a must for all fans of classical music - a lesson in not taking it over-seriously. Also includes Malcolm Arnold's Grand Grand Overture (with 3 vacuum cleaners and a floor polisher), Piano Concerto Popolare (all the best bits of all the great piano concertos in one), Chopin Mazurka no. 47 on tuba quartet, Haydn's Surprise symphony (anything goes) etc. etc. etc. A great laugh.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2007-06-27 13:04
Back to "unusual insts.", at times, when I play my Selmer alto clarinet in comm. band , I have to find parts, pref. in Eb, to play, just sight- transpose a second bass cl part or find and play the "melody" [if there is one]. Rather than playing a 2nd alto sax part, I take a bari sax part, playing what I can of it down one octave. Sometimes I'm "rewarded" in a well arranged piece with a part all of my own !!, and do wish more composers-arrangers would write for us "outcasts??". Just todays. [rainy] gripe. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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