Klarinet Archive - Posting 000006.txt from 1995/06

From: Thomas Labadorf <Labadorf@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Weird keys, emotional keys, colored keys
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 14:24:41 -0400

from Mitch Bassman

"Does anyone know if Stoltzman travels with a set
of transposed orchestra parts for the Mozart concerto?"

Mitch,
You and any other clarinetist will just die when you hear this, but here
goes: Band transcribers, especially from early 1900's, commonly transposed
keys of many orchestral works so that the entire clarinet section wouldn't
have to play string parts in E or B major. That's OK in most cases, but I
know of one transcription of the Mozart Concerto in A transcribed into Bb
concert to facilitate the music for ... the.. .. (here it goes)
EUPHONIUMIST! I know a euphoniumist who's done it. Here is a case where an
Oli North style shredder can come in handy.

It's possible that Stolzman was playing the transcription of the Mozart . . .
..... euphonium . . . .. concerto transcribed from the original (maybe)
clarinet concerto in A.

Heaven help us!

Tom L.