NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/rec/music/classica/19270

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From: [e-mail] (Gabriel Yedid)
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
Subject: Has Anybody out there seen (or heard) music by Langlais?
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Date: 23 Dec 92 05:10:43 GMT
Organization: Champlain Regional College, St-Lambert QC  CANADA
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     It isn't very common (especially in our day and age) for composers
born in this century to quickly become unheard of.  Such a case seems
to be the fate of French organist-composer Jean Langlais, a contemporary
of Messiaen's (1907-1990, compared with 1908-1992 for the latter), who
seems to have been so obscured by the BIRDMAN's shadow that his music
(at least here in Montreal) seems to have disappeared from the shelves
of even those stores considered "classically respectable".  The only way
to hear his music is at live recitals (fortunately, in a city that
gravitates towards French tastes [it IS a French-speaking city], there
are a fair number of recitalists that perform his music very often), and
it is impossible to make all of them.  Clerks look at me funny when I
mention the name.  I have found his organ works (complete and as a series
!) available through the Musical Heritage Society, but I can no longer
afford the prices they are asking.  Is there anybody in Canada or on
the U.S. Eastern Seaboard (not South of Maryland) who can tell me where
his music is still sold (Tower Records in NY maybe?), and at what price
(indicate Canadian or American $$)?
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My address is:  [e-mail]
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Thanks,
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                                              Gabe Yedid