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Author: Natalie Woodward
Date: 2000-11-21 12:07
Please read this to see if you can help me!
I am a student from England, and the principal clarinettist of our County Youth Orchestra and I have recently been presented with a piece for solo clarinet and orchestra by our conductor to play on our forthcoming tour to Norway next year. The piece is called 'Kalevan Kaikuja' or 'The Echoes of 'Kalevala' and is by Henri Claude Fontapie. From what I can gather he was/is a French composer who wrote this piece for his Scandinavian wife (possibly a Finn or Norwegian). It is a rather bizarre piece, one movement which has no real theme or pattern, and ends by just dying away on a rather unpleasant chord!! The piano reduction I have been given is also written in the same key as the clarinet part, all in all rather hard to know how to even begin to interpret it!! I have so far been unsuccessful in finding either a recording or any copy of the music (the copy I have is hand written...) or anything about the composer. So...I am trying desperately to find out if anyone has played, heard of or got a copy of this music!!!
I would be hugely grateful for any information anyone could give me!
Natalie
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Author: bob gardner
Date: 2000-11-21 13:47
Why was this piece selected for you to play. Maybe you could request something you enjoy playing. I always do better when I know the music and enjoy it.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-11-21 16:10
Didn't Sibelius compose a Kalevala [sp?] suite? I recall a "haunting" solo for English Horn, named I believe, The Swan of Tounela {sp?}. Don
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-11-21 17:35
Yes, I am nearly right! Milton Cross in his Ency.of Great Composers and Music, under Sibelius, Vol.2, pg. 739 [and I'm sure in Groves Dict. and other books on composers] speaks of the "Finnish epic poem, the Kalevala" and his use of its descriptions-philosophy in his music, The Swan of TUOnela [sorry about the misspelling] and more. Hope this may help, am in a research mode [and mood] today as I told my daughter earlier. Luck, Don
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Author: beejay
Date: 2000-11-22 23:15
The Finns won't like it if you call them Scandinavians. I never heard of Fontapie. Perhaps they could give you something by that marvellous Finnish composer Crusell instead. The Kalevala is the Finnish national epic by the way.
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