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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000034.txt from 2006/10
From: "Keith Bowen" <bowenk@-----.com>
Subj: [DR-L] RE: doublereed Digest 8 Oct 2006 21:01:02 -0000 Issue 1223
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:16:22 -0400
> Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 20:16:10 +0100
> To: doublereed@-----.org
> From: Geoffrey Bridge <geoffrey.bridge@-----.com>
> Subject: Mozart Gran Partita
> Message-Id: <35621CC3-6E5A-4430-95FD-215FF090CABB@-----.com>
>
> Anyone out there got suggestions for a seating plan for the K361 Gran
> Partita for 12 wind and bass?
>
> We have an idea to perform it "in the round" with oboes at left hand
> end, clarinets then bassetts, then 4 horns ending with bassoons and
> string bass completing a tight circle. The audience would be all
> round us - which may or may not be an advantage. The audience
> wouldalways have a players back to them which may not work well. The
> acoustic is of the ectremly resonant kind.
>
> Maybe a conventional layout would work best but which one?
>
> Any thoughts, anybody?
>
> Thanks
> Geoff
>
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> Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 13:43:12 -0700
> To: <doublereed@-----.org>
> From: herb fawcett <herbgosia@-----.net>
> Subject: Re: [DR-L] Mozart Gran Partita
> Message-ID: <C14EB0F0.1690E%herbgosia@-----.net>
>
> That would be a great opportunity to try something I have always wanted
> to
> try. Set the musicians in two groups facing each other, not a tight
> crescent. Move it around to give a nice sound wherever the audience sits.
> Some of Stokowski's seatings were very effective with full orchestra and
> they were certainly unconventional.
> Herb
I have played it several ways. It mostly depends on whether you are having a
conductor or not. Without a conductor, the semicircle works well, and I
think your circle would, too. In a resonant acoustic you need to be as close
together as you can, or you will not hear each other.
With a conductor, an arrangement that works is with oboes and basset horns
facing each other, a rank of clarinets and bassoons closing the U, four
horns in the next rank, and the double bass off to the side.
I trust you are using a string bass not a contrabassoon!
Keith Bowen
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