Klarinet Archive - Posting 000888.txt from 2000/02

From: klar-ANN-ette H Satterfield <klarann@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Stravinsky Firebird, 2 Versions?
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 01:16:20 -0500

Firebird versions. I am writing this from the top of my head, but this
is one of my favorite of Stravinsky pieces, and i have played two of the
versions..
Full ballet, original scoring uses large instrumentation, including 4
clarinet parts--Eb(soprano), 2 Bb/A, Bass. The Eb has the solos in Ronde
des Princesses, and much of L'oiseau de feu... and Variations de L'oiseau
de feu in this version.
( For some odd reason when we played this with the ballet, we only had 3
players--I stayed up 6 hours picking out the things that were not doubled
anywhere else, and distributed those among 5 players--clarinets and
bassoons. ( The bass player could play Eb, but not simultaneously!!!!)

Suite. version 191?(according to note in BonadeORCH.Studies "
reorchestrated by the composer in 1919)." Two clarinets and similar
instrumentation thoughout.

Stravinsky made another version of the suite in 1940s.

hope this is *some* help.

annhall

~Ann H Satterfield~
Principal Clarinet (and former music librarian)
Imperial Sym.Orch.
Lakeland, Florida

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