Klarinet Archive - Posting 001079.txt from 1998/01

From: Dee Hays <deerich@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Concert Band - Favorite Clarinet Parts
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 09:37:43 -0500

Bill Hausmann wrote:

> At 11:33 PM 1/22/98 -0500, Peter Stoll wrote:
> >I remember working up a fiendish transcription of William Tell, with an
> >all-tongued violin interlude in the fast part (double tonguing, where were
> >you when I really needed you!...).
> >
> I own a recording (4 sides, 12" 78-rpm acoustically recorded) of Arthur
> Pryor's Band playing the William Tell Overture. The last side (the "Lone
> Ranger" section) is utterly amazing. They take it at typical orchestral
> tempo, and it is virtually flawless (only one audible clarinet squeak). In
> those days you couldn't fix it later, either! My hat is off to anyone who
> can hack it! Or get through it at all without collapsing, gasping for breath!

And it seems the best sounding transcriptions keep the clarinets well up in the
altissimo to simulate the violins rather than bringing it down. You feel like you
have been in a marathon!

Dee Hays
deerich@-----.net
Canton, SD

   
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