Klarinet Archive - Posting 000178.txt from 1996/07

From: Hsuan-Yi Chen <hschen@-----.EDU>
Subj: The clarinet section in the US
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 16:31:35 -0400

Hello Jeroen:
As far as I know, there are usually 4~5 clarinettists in an orchestra in the
US: 1 principal, 1 associate principal (& Eb-clarinet)
1 or 2 2nd, 1 bass clarinet.
Some of the orchestras have their web pages (can be easily found by using
yahoo for example) and you can check the members from there.

Actually, for me they (Gerog Pieterson and Jacques Meertens) have the most
beautiful tone in the world.

Hsuan-Yi Chen

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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 20:03:07 +0200
From: "Jeroen T. Salm" <jtsalm@-----.NL>
Subject: Re: a simple question
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To: Multiple recipients of list KLARINET <KLARINET@-----.BITNET>

Well, whatever the instruments they are using, I always think they have
very distinctive and beautiful tone.

So, you are saying that there are 2 principal clarinettists in the KCO-
Amsterdam? That's so different from the U.S. orchestras.

Hsuan-Yi Chen

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Hello,
If I see the two of them (Gerog Pieterson and Jacques Meertens) I will tell
them your thoughts about them...I think they'ld like that!

Yes, it's normal here to have two principals, for all instruments, I mean:
two Konzertmeisters, two principal viola, etc., etc, two principal flute,
two principa oboe etc. But, this is only the case in the big/rich
orchestras. For The Netherlands: The Rotterdam Philharmonic, The Dutch Radio
Philharmonic, The Dutch Radio Symphony, The Residentie Orchestra (The
Hague), The Royal Concertgebouw Orch (Amsterdam).
They have a second clarinet player. Also a Eb-clarinet player (also second
clarinet) and a bass-player. A clarinet section of 5 (full-time). For oboe
(for instance): 4 (i.e.: 2 principal, 2nd, and alt/2nd), bassoon section of
4 (2 principal, second and a contrabassoon/second).
All other orchestras in The Netherlands have one principal, and a
second/co-principal and a second with bass- or Eb clarinet.

This is also normal in the german A-Orchester (Munchen, Koln, Staatskapelle
Dresden, etc.) and The Berlin Philharmonic.

I thought it was common in the US also. What does the clarinet section have
in the US in Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Fransisco etc.?

Jeroen (@-----. Salm
(The Netherlands)

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