Klarinet Archive - Posting 000969.txt from 1999/12

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: [kl] Stravinsky choreography
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 09:17:40 -0500

I just suggested to Kevin Fay in another thread that he might play the
Stravinsky 3 pieces for his lawyers, and it struck me that I should also
have suggested that if the situation isn't formal (and even if it is,
actually), it's worthwhile adding a bit of drama.

You can play the first movement sitting down, at the back of the stage,
with eyes shut; 'wake up' at the 'subito poco piu' forte e piu' veloce',
or whatever it is, can't remember exactly; walk forward to the Bb
clarinet waiting on a stand midstage and play the second movement from
there; switch clarinets and walk forward playing the third movement,
even into the audience if you can.

I once had the opportunity to have it lit, too; it was an interlude in a
programme of mini-ballets, so we had a blue cyclorama and two
differently coloured spots.

If I'd thought of it earlier, I might have been able to have a beautiful
dancer too....

Does anyone know of a ballet to this music, by the way? I'm sure it
must have been done. If so, what was it like?

Tony
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