Klarinet Archive - Posting 000126.txt from 1999/11

From: Shouryu Nohe <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Andrew Lloyd Webber
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 18:41:31 -0500

On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, David B. Niethamer wrote:

> If Webber follows a custom on Broadway in New York, he may have written
> the part for a specific player, who made some serious doubling money for
> assembling the extra clarinet to play that note. I've seen show books
> with 8 bars of flute or sax, written for a doubler of minimal skill, so
> that the player could collect the doubling. On a long running show, it
> can be significant. While it's not necessarily relevant to the Requiem,
> maybe those habits die hard.

When I played Joseph, by Webber, it was pretty simple - clarinet, bass
clarinet, soprano sax. Of course, at the time I was but a mere alto
saxist who could barely play by rote and could read fer nuthin. So I
played the soprano sax parts on clarinet, as you might imagine. However,
what made this show completely annoying was the plethura of movements
written in keys of 6 or more sharps and flats! Ack!

J. Shouryu Nohe
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe
Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
"If I wanted a 'job,' I'd have gone music ED, thank you very much!"

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