Karl Miller caused my long ears to prick up on two counts in his last
post. His mention of Easley Blackwood took me back more than fifty years
when as a grad student I was playing in the music school orchestra. We
played a work by Blackwood that I thought was really fine. In fact I
probably stole things from it in my student compositions at the time.
Whatever happened to Blackwood? I have heard nothing of his all these
years.
Now what about the Miller oboe concerto? I would like to hear it. Is
it available somewhere?
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!
David Lamb in Seattle
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