Klarinet Archive - Posting 000279.txt from 1995/05

From: Josias Associates <josassoc@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: 5 min solo with orchestra
Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 08:19:29 -0400

> On Fri, 5 May 1995, Thomas Labadorf wrote:
>
> > I was offered an opportunity to perform a clarinet solo with a local
> > orchestra on a pops/holiday concert scheduled in November. The problem:
the
> > conductor wants something flashy, only five minutes long and cheap (not
> > rental)! I don't want to turn it down because it may be my last oppotunity
> > of this kind. Any suggestion?

Tom,

Here's an afterthought to my previous message suggesting the
Rossini "Variations for Clarinet and Small Orchestra." You might
also consider a movement -- say the last one -- from the Berio
orchestration of the Brahms F minor clarinet sonata. While I wouldn't
call the music "flashy," it is lively. And it may stimulate a
classical-music audience, because very few such audiences have heard
this music in an orchestral form.

Connie