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Author: river432
Date: 2008-07-24 01:43
Hello Everyone,
I am new to this website, and would like to start with a question about some clarinet music I was just listening to on the Buffet-Crampon.com home page. This clarinet music seems very familiar, but I am not able to identify the piece, or the composer. Does anyone have any idea what the name of this clarinet piece is, or its composer? It really is a beautiful piece of clarinet music and you can listen to it by just going to Buffet-Crampon.com. Thank you for any information you can provide.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2008-07-24 01:55
The first 24 measures of the Copland Concerto.
...GBK
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Author: river432
Date: 2008-07-24 02:53
Thank you for identifying the Copland Clarinet Concerto for me! With all the Play-Along CD's that exist today, does anyone know how I can obtain a Play-Along CD for this concerto, if it does exist? Thank you.
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Author: kev182
Date: 2008-07-24 05:39
does anyone know the clarinetist playing the copland on the website?
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Author: redwine
Date: 2008-07-24 11:25
Hello,
SmartMusic has an accompaniment for the Copland Concerto.
Ben Redwine, DMA
owner, RJ Music Group
Assistant Professor, The Catholic University of America
Selmer Paris artist
www.rjmusicgroup.com
www.redwinejazz.com
www.reedwizard.com
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Author: river432
Date: 2008-07-24 14:26
Thank you everyone for all your help! I plan to perform (on clarinet) the Copland Concerto at my upcoming wedding (reception) in August as a tribute to my new wife. Thanks again.
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Author: Brenda ★2017
Date: 2008-07-24 14:46
Are you sure you want to play anything at your own wedding? We can think what we want beforehand but when the day comes the stress can be overwhelming. With the pressures of preparing - not to mention the bachelor party the night before - it could be an experience that turns out to be draining for you and for the guests. If you go through with it, are you going to play a portion of it or the whole thing? It could be long for the guests, depending on their musical tastes. Is your future wife encouraging you to do this?
I played (not alone, but with members of our clarinet choir) at two of my sons weddings and it was hard enough to juggle all the responsibilities and emotions of their special day.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2008-07-24 14:53
Brenda wrote:
> Are you sure you want to play anything at your own wedding? We
> can think what we want beforehand but when the day comes the
> stress can be overwhelming.
I was bass guitarist in the band at my wedding. Great fun was had by all ...
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Author: William
Date: 2008-07-24 15:40
LOL--I wanted to sit in with the 17 piece band at my daughter's wedding and save the cost of hiring the lead alto player, but my wife said, "NO WAY". And with "all" that went on that evening in downtown Mad City, I'm glad she did.
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Author: Brenda ★2017
Date: 2008-07-24 16:35
Good to read the reminiscences! Playing with a band at a son's wedding is one thing. Playing a clarinet solo at YOUR OWN wedding would be a different story. Talking about stories, this may give this poor man's wife plenty of fodder for wedding tales for years! Unless it's pulled off without a snag, that is. I'm just saying that with the normal wedding jitters it could be a challenge.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2008-07-24 16:53
Without offending you, your guests, or Copland (who I'm sure doesn't care), the opening of the Copland Concerto, while lyrical and melancholy would probably be the LAST thing I would choose to play at a wedding.
Considering the average attention span of most audiences has been programmed to be about 2'30", don't be surprised if people get restless, heads nod, and background chatter starts if you go over that time frame, no matter how well you play.
Am I underestimating the average wedding audience? No.
After playing weddings for more than 30 years in big bands and combos, I've seen a lot of musical tributes and performances by both the bride and groom and individual members of the wedding party. The ones that are lively, brief and with a bit of humor are usually remembered best and leave a nice lasting memory.
Want to be a big hit with the audience and have them really remember something? Play a clarinet tune they'll know, even if it's as simple as "Stranger on the Shore".
...GBK (who debuted a new orchestra/clarinet arrangement of "Stranger on the Shore" six times during the summer of 2007)
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2008-07-24 17:27
My wife and I had an "everybody join in" wedding. We got an interfaith script from the UN and rewrote it to fit us. Mary's clergyman college classmate officiated. We did the catering and flowers ourselves. A friend brought his video camera.
Mary's mother sang O Precious Love. A soprano friend sang an aria from Bach's Wedding Cantata. Then we picked up recorders and played Sheep May Safely Graze with the soprano.
Cost (with 30 guests): $1,000, including the honeymoon.
We watch it on our anniversary, and it still comes off good.
Ken Shaw
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2008-07-24 22:01
On my site http://www.woodwind.org/clarinet/Music/Blumberg.html
there is a midi for the Copland which if you put into a midi player editor you can mute out the Clarinet solo part.
But GBK is right - you sure you want to play that one at your wedding?
Here's one for you. The music that I choose to be played at my wedding back in 1986 a month out of College was Bach's Cantata BWV 156 "Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe"
Little did I know what the translation meant........
Got a good laugh 8 years later when I saw what it read and was already divorced by then.
(( I stand with one foot in the grave..))
http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com
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Author: river432
Date: 2008-07-25 00:22
Wow, I never thought I would get such a response from my first thread! But, I have to say, I also never thought I would get so much out of it either! I really appreciate all your responses and comments, as they have been very honest, informative, and not the least, very valuable, too. I have taken your advice and decided not to play the Copland Concerto, or anything else, at my wedding. What was I thinking!!?? I guess maybe we musicians, some of us anyway, feel the need or almost an obligation to perform at our own weddings in some way. But I now think it is a really bad idea. And I have you guys to thank for helping me "see straight" (which I also probably won't be doing at my wedding!!) Thank you so much for sparing me from a really bad idea, and the awkwardness and embarrassment that would have gone along with it. Gee, this really is a great site!! Marshall
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2008-07-25 01:12
I think the Buffet site is Goodman playing it..not my favorite recording of the piece for sure.
David Dow
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2008-07-25 15:13
David -
Better "Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe" than Cantata 199, "Mein Herz schwimmt im Blut" (which needs no translation), or Cantata 12, "Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen" (Weeping, Lamenting, Worrying, Fearing").
Getting back to the original question, to me the Copland recording on the Buffet site doesn't sound like Goodman (whose original, mono recording I like very much). I think I read somewhere that it's Michel Arrignon, who at least used to do instrument testing for Buffet, but I can't find the reference.
Ken Shaw
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