Klarinet Archive - Posting 000833.txt from 1999/05

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Polovetsian Dances
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 03:19:12 -0400

It surprises me sometimes how mindless I can sometimes be in an orchestra
when the part is something I learned long ago and take for granted. A
student was working on the Presto of Polovetsian Dances (the first movement
of the suite). She was using my Kalmus part. When we got to the last solo
passage (2 measures after E if you have the part handy) I started playing it
with her: D-E-D-Fnatural-E-D| E-F-F#-G-Fnatural-E|, which is how I've always
played it. Then I stopped and realized that, in this part at least, there's
no natural sign on the last F(next-to-last-note) to cancel the sharp sign
two notes earlier. I checked in the only other source I own, Bonade's book
of excerpts, and, sure enough, the note is written with a natural sign. I
guess I originally learned it from the Bonade book, but I've played it
half-a-dozen times and never noticed if the F natural sounded wrong.

Which is right? Is the Kalmus part wrong (I can't imagine!) or is Bonade's
correction wrong? Bonade's way (F natural) sounds right to me, but I've been
playing it that way for 30 or so years. Never, unfortunately, under a
conductor who would have known the difference.

Karl Krelove

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