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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000074.txt from 2006/12
From: Richard Ramey <rcramey@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Nutcracker 1st bassoon part
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:12:48 -0500
How strange! I caught a nasty cold during the 1st weekend and am
going into the 2nd week with that cold!
On Dec 19, 2006, at 11:25 PM, Judy and Jim Preston wrote:
> This whole thread reminds me of a remark I heard years ago. It
> seems that
> the orchestra management people have identified for the medical
> people a new
> ailment, which becomes almost epidemic at this time of year. It is
> called
> the "Second-week-of-the-Nutcracker Flu."
>
> -Jim Preston
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lacy, Edwin [mailto:el2@-----.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 2:35 PM
> To: doublereed@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [DR-L] Nutcracker 1st bassoon part
>
> <<<But how hard is the 1st bassoon part to play? I'm just curious,
> given
> all the work on this piece that I've done over the past couple
> years.>>>
>
> Much of it is fairly routine, but there are a dozen or so spots that
> require a lot of attention. For me, the most difficult spot is the
> 6/8
> passage at the end of the first number after the Overture.
> (Bassoons in
> 3rds, clarinets an octave higher) I've been practicing this for many
> years, and still don't have a record of 100% accuracy.
>
> Ed Lacy
> University of Evansville
>
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