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Author: ruben
Date: 2025-07-14 13:29
The composer, Lalo Schifrin, passed away a couple of weeks ago. He is basically known as a film-music composer, but composed quite a few Classical pieces and was classically trained. Central Park variations for clarinet and piano is a very attractive piece. It is played by the great David Schifrin (spelling?), who, if I remember right, was his nephew and whom Lalo Schifrin composed it for. It is on youtube.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2025-07-15 09:46
Thanks Peter! A concert of Classical music by film music composers, for clarinet in a chamber ensemble, would be a good idea: Rota, Bernard Hermann, John Williams, Lalo Schifrin, Rozas, etc.
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Author: lmliberson
Date: 2025-07-15 16:19
Ruben - actually, I used that idea in a solo recital over twenty years ago: Arthur Honegger Sonatine, Miklos Rozsa Sonatina, Malcolm Arnold Sonatina, Nino Rota Sonata in D, Leonard Bernstein Sonata (although his film output was quite a bit less than the others), and, as an encore, an arrangement of the Love Theme from "Cinema Paradiso" by Ennio Morricone.
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2025-07-17 02:13
Ruben, if only the John Williams Concerto was freely available to us.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2025-07-17 09:50
lml: Bernstein's "On the Town" could be turned into a really good piece for clarinet and piano!
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Author: ruben
Date: 2025-07-17 12:29
liberson: Did your audience enjoy your the recital and its theme? I suspect they did! Honegger, I would say, was a major composer and as far as I know, didn't compose much film music. The first major composer that composed music for a film: Camille Saint-Saëns! Georges Delerue, who wrote practically nothing but film music, composed a lovely "Elegia" for clarinet and piano.
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Author: lmliberson
Date: 2025-07-17 20:21
I did the recital twice in one week and both were in front of full houses (well...recital-sized full houses) and, yes, it went over very well.
It's quite true that Honegger was a major composer of many forms but his film music was also quite prevalent as he worked on more than 40 films. In fact, he was likely (after Saint-Saens) one of the very first of the major composers to score for film.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2025-07-18 09:46
liberson: I didn't realize Honegger wrote so much film music! Congratulations on your recital. I'll come up with some ideas of film-music composers for your next one. Duke Ellington did three film scores, for example: two of them, fabulous.
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