Klarinet Archive - Posting 000739.txt from 1998/09

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Polovetsian Dances
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 16:38:31 -0400

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From: gdubac <gdubac@-----.com>
Date: Monday, September 21, 1998 10:41 AM
Subject: [kl] Polovetsian Dances

>My son is in a youth orchestra. The orchestra director asked him to try
>and get hold of an E-flat clarinet for Borodin's Polovetsian Dances. My
>son says that he's played this music twice already and that he's sure
>that it was scored for B-flat clarinet. Are there two versions?
>
The Kalmus catalog lists the instrumentation as having only 2 soprano (Bb
and A) clarinet parts with no Eb either as a double or as a separate part.
Certainly, the part that I've played has always been for Bb and A.

Karl Krelove

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