Klarinet Archive - Posting 000782.txt from 1998/06

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Notes from the Ring Part I
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 16:48:51 -0400

On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Jacqueline Eastwood wrote:

> Anyone who knows anything about Wagner's orchestrational habits wouldn't
> put the bass clarinet behind the piccolo and 5 miles from the bassoons,
> but that's what happened.

I have been in the orchestra pit at Wagner's opera house at Bayreuth, (I
have a photograph of myself sitting in the principal bassoonist's chair),
and if memory serves correctly, the configuration you describe above is
exactly how the orchestra there sits today. (b cl behind picc)

Ed Lacy
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