Klarinet Archive - Posting 000139.txt from 1996/09

From: Laurence Liberson <hardreed@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:51:27 -0400

Daniel A. Paprocki said:

> The sit out time in Sym Fan is nothing compared to the Ravel Piano Concerto
> in G. You sit out the whole 2nd movement and then count for your life 16
> bars of piano rumbling and come in with a screamer solo up to high F - oh
> yeah DON'T RUSH!

You get used to waiting, I suppose...Try the last movement of Mahler
9, for example: you sit for the better part your adult life, and
when it's time to come in (assuming that you are either awake or
still alive!) you must enter on a high Bb, all alone and pianissimo.
Very fun.

Then there's Shostakovich 6th, where you sit out most of the first
movement only to rip through a major league solo that begins the
second.

Glad we're playing all Beethoven next week!

Larry Liberson
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
hardreed@-----.com