Klarinet Archive - Posting 000776.txt from 1998/09

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Polovetsian Dances
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 03:44:04 -0400

I've never seen a version with an E flat - I'm sure it's not Borodin's
idea - but that doesn't mean someone hasn't constructed one. The music is
scored for clarinets in A in part, and there are *very* good technical
reasons for using them, if possible.
Roger Shilcock

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, gdubac wrote:

> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 10:42:06 -0400
> From: gdubac <gdubac@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> 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?
>
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