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Re: Adagio for strings, Samuel Barber. -Reply

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Subject: Re: Adagio for strings, Samuel Barber. -Reply
From: Kevin Baker <kbaker@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 07:33:21 -0500
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Edy Van Asch wrote:
> 
> Although Alec's reply is not all clear to me either, I feel Adagio for stings is
> not arrangeable for brass. You do not arrange Tsjaikowski's serenade for strings
> either. No way you can even get close to the atmosphere strings bring on.
> 
> I played an arrangement of the adagio, 2 days later I heard the string version
> and everything going trough my mind was "Oh no, we shouldn't even have touched
> it".
> 
> Was this what Alec also meant?
> 
> Edy

Check out the Adagio reading on the London Trombones CD from several
years ago. Its the only one I've ever heard with brass that does it
justice. 

Of course, what other instument could pull it off I ask?<g> 

Kevin Baker


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