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Author: clarinetist04
Date: 2006-09-23 23:49
That's too bad. What a fantastic composer. So much clarinet literature from him and his band and orchestral works were lovely indeed. What a tragedy.
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2006-09-24 10:12
My sentiments also. Perhaps now the 'establishment' will give him recgognition he so deserved in his lifetime.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: Danny Boy
Date: 2006-09-24 10:43
Absolutely Peter, Julian Lloyd Webber made the point that even though this would have been his 85th birthday year, the BBC Proms did not include one of his works.
I was lucky enough to play the clarinet sonatina to him, and found him to be charming...despite what I had been told.
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2006-09-24 19:21
"What a tragedy."
He was 84. We all have to die. Dying at 84 is not a tragedy.
Mozart and Schubert in their 30s, even Britten at 63, OK. Malcolm Arnold didn't do so badly.
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If there are so many people on this board unwilling or unable to have a civil and balanced discussion about important issues, then I shan't bother to post here any more.
To the great relief of many of you, no doubt.
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Author: diz
Date: 2006-09-24 22:45
He wrote the sound tracks to those deliciously suggestive St. Trinian (sp?) movies with those horrid private school gals.
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: clarinetist04
Date: 2006-09-25 05:31
Well, indeed a fantastic man. How funny that he died on Shostakovich's birthday and Francaix's death date.
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2006-09-25 13:02
Larry- he's not credited with composing the theme used the the "River Kwai". The way I understood the article, he composed a counterpoint to that theme. I haven't seen the movie or heard the soundtrack though...
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2006-09-26 12:59
I have always been a big fan of the music or Arnold and Bax...it seems a shame one hears so little of their fine works in North America.
It also seems there has been great reluctance among the Classical elite and critical community to give Arnold and composers like Bax a footing.
David Dow
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