Klarinet Archive - Posting 000759.txt from 1998/05

From: Dodgshun family <dodgshun@-----.nz>
Subj: [kl] Orchestras which sing
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 04:10:25 -0400

I noticed in a recent posting something about a piece which calls for a wind
band to sing. (I can't find the post so I can't give a reference!) This
interested me, because I thought we had a bit of a rarity here in
Christchurch. Our Youth Orchestra, which I play in, has a conductor who is
very keen on choral singing. This probably has something to do with the fact
that his wife is a very capable singer and conductor herself! Anyway, it's
become a tradition that whenever we give a concert, it's ended with a song.
We've done Maori songs (Maori are the indigenous people of NZ, for those who
don't know) and madrigals, among other things; we sing in 3, 4 and 5 parts.
The best one we ever did was the Gibbons 5-part madrigal "The Silver Swan".
What makes it even harder for us is that we stand in our normal orchestral
places, so you're not usually standing next to someone who's singing the
same part as you. Still, that helps the balance! Does anyone know of any
other orchestra anywhere else in the world that does this kind of thing, or
are we the only ones?! I was also interested to discover recently that horn
players can play 3-part chords! There's no way of doing this on clarinet,
is there?

Anna

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