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Author: Willie
Date: 1999-12-23 01:22
I just finnished watching a nice performance by the Canadian Brass on PBS and it was great! Has anyone ever tried to form a Clarinet or wood wind sextet to play in this style? I think it would be interesting to hear various types of music done in this style on little E-fers down to the BBb contras.
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Author: Jeff
Date: 1999-12-23 01:29
That would be cool. I can't think of any groups, but I know that Stoltzman has performed with them on clarinet.
Jeff
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Author: Accomps
Date: 1999-12-23 03:42
I love the Canadian Brass - their performances are a blast both musically, and for the entertainment $$.
My Piano Accompaniments (an Organ work)just outranked the Canadian Brass on the MP3.com Solo Instruments category!
http://genres.mp3.com/music/classical/solo_instruments/
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Author: Willie
Date: 1999-12-23 04:37
They featured a Tuba, a French horn, a Trombone, a Trumpet and a Piccolo Trumpet. The older gentleman with the whiskers performed some outrageous arpegios on the Trumpet that were mind boggling.
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Author: Accomps
Date: 1999-12-23 13:54
Each one is a world class player. They have it all - including the personality.
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Author: Gary Van Cott
Date: 1999-12-23 18:01
There is a clarinet quartet from Brazil that apparently put on a good show at ClarinetFest a couple of years ago. I have their CD but some of the music on it is a little far out for my taste. Multiphonics and such.
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 1999-12-24 01:57
If one has a good ear he/she will recognize that they are not performing on equal-tempered scale but on pure temper. Brass is easier to bend intonations. Clarinet is difficult to do so.
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Author: David Blumberg
Date: 1999-12-24 03:24
I really dislike that kind of noise. Goes from squealing pigs to racket, and back again. Just my opinion
David Blumberg
Gary Van Cott wrote:
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There is a clarinet quartet from Brazil that apparently put on a good show at ClarinetFest a couple of years ago. I have their CD but some of the music on it is a little far out for my taste. Multiphonics and such.
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Author: Willie
Date: 1999-12-24 03:42
I know what you mean. I've heard some jazz improv sax players chomp down on a reed and blow as hard as they could (in the name of art & jazz) and make some of the most ear splitting shreeks you've ever heard.
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 1999-12-25 00:50
They sound like a Mithy Miller chorus. (Did I spell correct?) Mediocre.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 1999-12-25 01:20
Hiroshi wrote:
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They sound like a Mithy Miller chorus. (Did I spell correct?) Mediocre.
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Mitch Miller. And somehow or other I think you're listening to a different Canadian Brass than I am ...
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Author: Melanie
Date: 1999-12-26 18:49
I have a CD that features a jazz clarinet quintet. 2 sopranos, 2 bassethorns, and a bass clarinet. The Vienna Clarinet Connection. It features the principal clarinetist of Vienna's Volksoper. These guys are all classically trained and play wonderfully as an ensemble. My friends and I refer to the CD as "Clarinets Behaving Badly," but it really is a great CD. I don't know if the quintet tours, or if it came together for the CD.
Melanie
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Author: Willie
Date: 1999-12-27 02:35
Ooh! Make a fat old man happy. Tell me who puts this CD out and the number and such. Sounds like something I can into.
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Author: Fat Albert
Date: 1999-12-29 03:05
FYI...I sat next to one of the trumpeters from the Canadian Brass on a flight from Wash. D.C. to Dallas last summer. Very nice guy. I got the inkling that he was a pro musician, but I didn't realize who he was until I opened up the paper the next day and saw an ad for a concert they were giving with his picture!
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 1999-12-29 03:30
Fat Albert - either your ISP iis messed up or your email address is bogus.
Please, BBoard users - if you don't want to use an email address, don't put one in. Thanks.
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Author: Melanie
Date: 1999-12-29 05:21
To Willie (or anyone else interested):
Here is the data for the jazz quintet CD I mentioned:
V.C.C 001
Vienna Clarinet Connection
It was recorded in 1995. Includes the companies Pepperland and "Made in Austria by Sony DADC" and PEP 95009 on the actual disc.
Included on the CD are:
~A Night in Tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie/ Richard Hepner / H. Hödl)
~A Little Funky Song for Sheba (Helmut Hödl)
~Autumn Leaves (Johnny Mercer / H. Hödl)
~In Between (Michael Rot)
~The Drunken Girl from Ipanema (Antonio Carlos Jobim / H. Hödl)
~In a Sentimental Mood (Duke Ellington / Richard Hepner)
~Musik für Klarinettenquartett (Franz Cibulka)
~Divertimento für drei Klarinetten & Bassklarinette: Allegro/ Andante sostenuto/ Allegro con brio (Alfred Uhl)
My dad bought it when he was in Vienna on a trip, so it may be difficult to locate here in the U.S.
Good luck finding the CD! Oh yes, the cover of the CD features a black and white picture of the quintet dressed like mobsters in zoot suits and fedoras, if that helps. The rest of the labels are orange.
Happy Hunting!
Melanie
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Author: Willie
Date: 1999-12-30 03:51
Thanks Melanie! I'll zip on down to Mall first thing and dig through their catalogs. Two of the employees there at the "record store" are music majors and may be interested in this also.
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