Klarinet Archive - Posting 001341.txt from 2000/04

From: "Benjamin Maas" <benmaas@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Gypsy Baron
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 10:00:20 -0400

>
> Thanks, Victor, for putting that up. Can anyone verify that this
> is the passage
> in question? How fast does it go? Just to glance at it, it
> doesn't seem to fit
> Gigliotti's estimate:
>
> > Gigliotti said to me that in his opinion, it is the hardest brief
> > orchestral passage written.
>
> --Doug
>

This is quite definitely it... When you have a conductor on the podium that
wants to go really fast, (I played it at close to 140 once...) it is really
hard. It is also totally exposed for those couple bars.

--Ben

Benjamin Maas
Freelance Clarinetist and Recording Engineer
Los Angeles, CA
benmaas@-----.com
http://www.fifthcircle.com

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