Klarinet Archive - Posting 000237.txt from 1996/03

From: Jacqueline G Eastwood <eastwooj@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Prokofieff Quintet
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 13:03:21 -0500

Hi Teri,

I played this piece last year, and right about the time we were getting
ready for our second performance of it, Larry Combs happened to be in
town for a chamber music festival at which HE was playing it!! (popular
piece, I guess!) So I actually had the temerity to introduce myself and
then ask HIM the exact same question! Here's his answer:

Rather than attempt to overblow the fourth by changing your tongue
position, which basically sounds like crap anyway, use a short fingering
for your high E (just 2 & 3 of left hand, no Eb key on right), then use
the F#-C# key on the right as a trill key. You really have to "hear" the
A for it to speak, and a very arched tongue position will help. Even if
this doesn't work, the resulting F works nicely in the texture, and no
o one really needs to know that your part is supposed to have the same
interval as the oboe did earlier!

Please do let me know if this works for you. I usually ended up with
more F's than A's, but, oh, well! It should sound spectacular, as the
rest of the piece does.

Jacqueline Eastwood
University of Arizona/Arizona Opera Orchestra
eastwooj@-----.edu

On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Teri Herel
wrote:

> O.k. folks!
>
> Prokofieff quintet, Op. 39
> Sixth movement
> Measure 84
>
> How do YOU play that A? I'd love a description of your best loved solution!
> Thank you.
>
> Teri Herel
>