Klarinet Archive - Posting 000255.txt from 1998/08

From: "Brent Eresman" <Beresman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Bass Clarinet Excerpts
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 09:06:28 -0400

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> From: Edmund William White <ewhite@-----.us>
> Subject: Orchestral bass clarinet excerpts
> Message-Id: <Pine.ULT.3.91.980807014251.3855B-100000@-----.us>
>
> Hello all. I've been given the opportunity to audition for my
> University's top orchestra on bass clarinet (it's only open to music
> majors, but due to instrumentation problems I can enroll despite my
> status as an electrical engineering major). However, the orchestra director did
> not anticipate having a dedicated bass clarinetist audition for his
> group. Consequently, I have to prepare four orchestral excerpts of my
> choice to audition with. I've played a good amount of orchestral bass (my
> focus is jazz) and basinet (bassoon parts), but I've never run across any
> major bass solos, etc. Truthfully, the only excerpts that come to mind
> are from Copland's El Salon Mexico and Strauss' Death and
> Transfiguration. I'd appreciate any suggestions as to what to play. I
> want to make a good impression because this will be my first taste of
> university-level playing. By the way, I've heard that there exists a
> book full of orchestral bass clarinet excerpts. Where can I find it in
> two weeks?
>
> Edmund William White
>
Gershwin's American in Paris has a few nice bass clarinet parts.
Also look at the Nutcracker--there are one or two good bass clarinet
moments in the suite (Sugar Plum Fairy, i believe, and i forget where
else)

Brent Eresman
beresman@-----.com

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