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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000057.txt from 2006/12

From: Richard Ramey <rcramey@-----.edu>
Subj: [DR-L] BASSOON: question about Nutcracker Bsn 1 part
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:26:34 -0500

Hi, everyone:

I've got a question about our favorite piece, The Nutcracker. One
annoying passage (of many), is at near the end of Waltz of the
Snowflakes (the end of Act I). At the final Presto section, in 2/4
there is a difficult slur from high G down to Middle C (the actual
passage is: eighth rest, G-sixteenth down to C-sixteenth, back up to
eighth-G, then another G sixteenth down to C-sixteenth and finally
back up to G-eighth). The C is difficult to sound cleanly with the
tempo. Nothing seems to work 100%, even after practicing this a few
hundred times over the years. The best I can do is apply the lock
and "aim" my air for the C; the 1st slur seems to come out but the
next one is hit or miss.

Anyone out there have the definitive answer? And how 'bout those
trills....(I've got a good solution to that if anyone wants to write
me privately; no, it's not "tacet"!)...

Richard

Richard Ramey
Professor of Bassoon
University of Arkansas
member, The Ramey Trio

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