Klarinet Archive - Posting 001062.txt from 1995/10

From: Claudia Zornow <claudia@-----.COM>
Subj: Peter and the Wolf
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 11:31:32 -0500

Mike Moors writes:

> When I was in college I remember playing Peter and the Wolf at a Pops
> Concert. It is scored for Bb clarinet and has one Low Eb in it. A
> simple solution was to play the phrase that had the Eb in it on my A
> clarinet as it is 1/2 step lower.

Mike, you may have been playing a transposed part. As I recall,
"Peter and the Wolf" is written for both A and Bb clarinets;
there are low E's written for the A but no low Eb's for either
instrument.

I thought the hardest part of the piece wasn't the cat solo (that's
the kind of passage that you can get with practice) but those over-
the-break back-and-forth arpeggios. I just couldn't coordinate my
fingers that fast. I ended up cheating by leaving out every fourth
note in the pattern, and I don't think anyone noticed except maybe
for Dave Richards who was sitting next to me--right, Dave?

Claudia