Klarinet Archive - Posting 000087.txt from 1998/11

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fast-high playing
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 13:06:57 -0500

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From: GrabnerWG@-----.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] re:Fingering Help for fast-high playing- LONG!
controversial! Fun!

>... Which leads to to a point we have overlooked in our ongoing
discussions.
>Composers, however exhalted, are or were mere human beings. As human
beings,
>they are prone to make mistakes, ommissions, or make assumptions which
later
>on prove false (which is why years later some composers go back and rework
old
>pieces).
>
>Sure, a work is a piece of ART, and we SHOULD do all that we can to try to
>meet the composers intentions. But, sometimes a little trickery helps make
the
>effect, when trying literally to play an unplayable passage just makes a
mess.

A few marches immediately come to mind here. At our last concert, we played
"Americans We" by Fillmore. In the first clarinet part were tongued 1/8's
on altissimo G and the conductor took it at 1/2 @-----. It's not too bad to
play alone but for several clarinets to play in tune with each other and
with the flutes is a bit tricky to say the least. In the end only two of us
played it as written and the rest took it down an octave.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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