Klarinet Archive - Posting 000721.txt from 1998/05

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Anti-alto clarinet forces
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 19:56:36 -0400

On Wed, 13 May 1998, Craig E. Countryman wrote
> But I would just
> recommend a bass clarinet instead because I believe it sounds better (based on
> what I have heard) and because there is much more of a need for one in a small
> wind ensemble.

Unless of course you were programming the works of Dahl and Grainger, and
then the alto clarinet would be essential.......especially for the large
alto clarinet solo in the end of the second movement of the Ingolf Dahl
Sinfonietta.....one of the premiere works for wind ensembles.

Roger Garrett
IWU

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