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Thank you very much for your interest in glass armonica recordings.
At the moment, I have three products available: the all-digital
"GLASS MUSIC, VOLUME ONE" in Compact Disc and Cassette formats, a
demonstration cassette featuring just one of the armonica pieces and
some introductory radio interviews, and a few remaining copies of the
Hasse cantata in Cassette and CD formats.  The attached sheet contains
ordering information for each of these glass recordings.  I will place
your name and address on my mailing list so that you will receive
announcements of future items when they become available.

I am especially proud to have made the first authentic recordings
of glass music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his contemporaries.
When Mozart was a child he heard an armonica played in Milan and
expressed a fervent desire to his father Leopold to acquire one for
him, unfortunately without success.  However, in 1791, during the
last year of his life, Mozart was inspired to compose for this mes-
merizing instrument.  Under commission from his distant cousin, the
blind armonica virtuoso Marianna Kirchgessner, he created what was to
become his last chamber ensemble composition, the Concertantequintet:
"Adagio and Rondo in C", K.617.

Throughout the enchanting work the armonica maintains a leading role
while intermingling with the other instruments in classic Mozartean
style.  I made this recording while on tour in Europe in 1991 with The
Salzburger Soloisten, a chamber ensemble that I perform with on a
regular basis.

As Leopold Roellig, one of the instrument's admirers, wrote in 1787:
"The sensation the armonica produced after its first appearance, and
the unanimous applause of all who heard it, make the instrument ...
the most satisfying and the most beautiful mankind has ever known."
I do hope you will take this opportunity so as to once again be able
to hear this charming eighteenth century musical invention.

Yours sincerely,  Dennis James

Dennis James, Armonicist
PMB 112, 3579 E. Foothill Boulevard
Pasadena, California  91107
muscur@aol.com / 626-398-3232

 [ Dennis James organized the First International Glass Music Festival
 [ in 1983, bringing performers and enthusiasts of glass music from
 [ around the world together for the first time.  Contact him for more
 [ information about his available recordings.  -- Robbie