David Lamb <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Whatever happened to Blackwood?  I have heard nothing of his all these
>years.

The last work listed in his entry in the online Groves dates from 1996.
I still enjoy listening to his Symphonies, the Oboe Concerto and Piano
Concerto.  If his recordings are any indication, he is also a superb
pianist. My friend Louis Lane conducted the Piano Concerto with the
composer and said he played magnificently...confirmed in the tape I
have of it.

>Now what about the Miller oboe concerto? I would like to hear it. Is
>it available somewhere?

Where it belongs... in my attic gathering dust. It was my masters thesis.

>KM invites opinions about the compositions of Segerstam.  I greatly
>admire Segerstams's recordings of Mahler, but I have to say that his own
>compositions strike me as pathetic indulgences.  OK...  it's an opinion
>already!

I guess I asked because I have never been able to make much sense of his
work.

Karl

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