Klarinet Archive - Posting 000006.txt from 1996/02

From: "Scott D. Morrow" <SDM@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Hello Dolly
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 08:51:45 -0500

>What are your opinions on
>sop sax being used instead of clarinet? Should I be annoyed? Thanks for
>listening to me whine :-)
>
>Neil Chungfat

Risking more "margerine for butter" barbs, I'd have to say that it
would depend on the part! I don't think I would agree with wholesale
replacement of the clarinet by soprano, but if there were some parts that
had more of a sax style, why not? This past Spring, I was the only wind in
a 4-piece pit orchestra, and there was at least one place where I decided
that the clarinet part worked much better on soprano (mostly for volume
reasons!).

-Scott

Scott D. Morrow
Department of Biochemistry
School of Hygiene and Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
(410)-955-3631

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