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Klarinet Archive - Posting 000087.txt from 1999/03

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] About authenticity
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 09:09:35 -0500

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Richard Bush wrote:
> Playing some music with instruments that the composer had in mind is not always
> economically, logistically and practically possible. Does Wagner or Richard
> Strauss that calls for a Heckelphone require flying in one of maybe two people
> in L.A. to achieve a satisfying performance, or will a Loree bass oboe do? What
> if there just isn't either one available, player with horn or alternate horn,
> within a time frame or budget? What then, scrap the piece from the program?

Even more worrisome is the call for serpent. Composers used serpent
because it was the only available bass wind instrument. Tuba eventually
replaced it - and, when performing works which require serpent we must ask
if we want the ugly sound of the serpent or the much more sonorous sound
of the tuba.
Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director - Concert Band, Symphonic Winds & Titan Band
Advisor - Recording Studio
Illinois Wesleyan University

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