Klarinet Archive - Posting 000381.txt from 1997/01

From: "David C. Blumberg" <reedman@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Wrong clarinet passages
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:16:17 -0500

Now, I'll enter the fray from another side.
I don't care how technically easy something is. I would rather play what
Clarinet it is written for as a matter of principal, and staying within the
composers wishes, and intentions. If it is a matter of not having time to
change, or to be in pitch, then I'm sure the composer would rather me play
it well. I won't use a different clarinet because of the technical problems
incurred by the original key.

At 04:43 PM 1/22/97 -0000, Robert Sales wrote:
>As an addition to Dan P's list, I found that most of the first clarinet
>part in the Strauss Oboe concerto is much easier on the A clarinet,
>particularly those exposed downward scales in the first movement that
>become C major rather than B major.
>
>Robert Sales
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David C. Blumberg
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Principal Clarinet Riverside Symphonia
Adjunct Woodwind Instructor Univ. of Penn,. Bryn Mawr College