Klarinet Archive - Posting 000612.txt from 1997/04

From: Jacqueline Eastwood <eastwooj@-----.EDU>
Subj: RE: A and Bb in chamber works [was: Zemlinsky Trio]
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 13:39:24 -0400

On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Lorne G. Buick wrote:

> It depends whether you consider the Dvorak Serenade chamber music... (I'm
> playing it tonight with the Newfoundland Sinfonia) Incidentally (pursuant
> to the old discussion of switching instruments etc.) the second clarinet
> has a luxurious 14 bars of slow 4/4 to warm up the A (after two movements
> on Bb), but the 1st has to start the big solo right off with one of (at
> least potentially) one of the worst intervals on the instrument (eek,
> almost said "horn" there ;-), open G (often flat) to long C (chronically
> sharp)...
>
> > Those are two that come to mind. But as near as I can figure, both clarinets
> > were not used in the same chamber music piece until the modern era, since
> > I can't think of any pre-modern example of this.
> >
> > Rob Teitelbaum
> > Claremont McKenna College
>
>
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> LGB Lorne G Buick St. John's
> lgbuick@-----.net Newfoundland
> Canada
>
>
>
DOH!! I've only played this piece 3 times in the past 6 years! Way to
go, Lorne... and enjoy your performance; what a great clarinet part!!

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