Klarinet Archive - Posting 000094.txt from 1999/03

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] About authenticity
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 10:01:46 -0500

BUT - we should also ask what kinds of *other* brass instruments are to go
with the serpent.
Roger S.

On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Roger Garrett wrote:

> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 08:09:35 -0600 (CST)
> From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] About authenticity
>
> 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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