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Author: Dan Oberlin ★2017
Date: 2007-10-03 17:04
The Ken Burns WWII series on PBS has a lot of clarinet in the background music.
The Copland Concerto figures prominently and there's a fair amount of jazz
clarinet. But the segment dealing with the horrors of the concentration
camps had some striking clarinet music that I didn't recognize. Can someone identify it?
D.O.
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Author: BobD
Date: 2007-10-03 17:38
Maybe Messianen. Reportedly the Copland which is played frequently was by Benny Goodman.
Bob Draznik
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2007-10-03 19:09
Thank you for asking, Dan, I also admired the clar work all thru the 7 episodes, the music was outstanding and subtle to the stories. GREAT, Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: vin
Date: 2007-10-03 21:10
The Copland Concerto begins every episode that I've seen, and slow excerpts from the solo clarinet movement "Abyss of the birds" from Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time" are featured prominently, as are the violin and cello solo movements.
Some of Ken Burns' finest work; it will leave you raw.
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Author: DougR
Date: 2007-10-04 14:51
I found Burns' editing of the music somewhat distracting at times. (probably one of the pitfalls of being a clarinet nerd?) Just when you're settling in comfortably to watch a sequence with the slow movement of the Dvorak cello concerto playing in the background, for instance, there'll be an edit to another similar scene, and the accompanying audio throws you back into the middle of another phrase from elsewhere in the movement--even, at times, the middle of a note sequence. And you're going, "Wha--? what just happened?" Almost as if the music was edited to video at one point in the production process & then the whole thing was recut later, music and all, and if it chopped up the music, so what? I found it jarring, and a tad disrespectful of the music, frankly.
The series is tremendous, of course, and tells the story of WWII (and war in general) the way it needs to be told. I'd love to know who played the Copland and the Messaien and the Dvorak, which were just beautiful to hear.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2007-10-04 15:09
DougR wrote:
> I'd love
> to know who played the Copland and the Messaien and the Dvorak,
> which were just beautiful to hear.
Gary Gray played the Copland.
...GBK
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Author: BobD
Date: 2007-10-06 12:44
Excellent versions of the original Copland are available by Charles Neidich and Reto Bieri (sp?)
Bob Draznik
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Author: Philcoman
Date: 2007-10-09 17:19
So glad you mentioned the music in "The War" series, because I noticed it too, and I thought I was the only one. It really annoyed my wife when we'de be watching some intense piece of footage and I say, "Wow, listen to that clarinet!"
The soundtrack is available now. Gotta have it!
"If you want to do something, you do it, and handle the obstacles as they come." --Benny Goodman
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