Klarinet Archive - Posting 000108.txt from 1994/01

From: Jordan Selburn <jselburn@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Introduction/Question
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 16:44:27 -0500

John Cloudman writes:
>Now my question: Has anyone played the 1st clarinet part for the musical
>Brigadoon? I'm about to start that, and I wanted to get an idea of how
>challenging it's going to be. I heard it, and it sounds really beautiful.
> Thanks in advance.

John -

I just played Brigadoon about a month ago (sightread it opening night, in fact -
there's almost nothing like the adrenalin rush you get sightreading a
performance!). While I played the Clarinet 2 book, other than a couple of
small but prominent solos there's not that much difference. The key to
Brigadoon is: beg, borrow or steal an A clarinet! There's a fair amount of
fast playing in 5 and 6 sharps (for Bb clarinet) that has to be
significantly easier transposed to the A. This is, in fact, what one of
the other players did and reported it to be well worth the effort. (Sid,
are you out there?)

Now as to whether this goes against the sound that Lerner&Lowe wanted . . .

Jordan
I'm not a clarinetist, but I play one in an orchestra