Klarinet Archive - Posting 001317.txt from 2000/05

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Beethoven 9th
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 22:26:22 -0400

I sang it as a member of the Temple University Choirs with Ormandy and the
Philadelphia orchestra. We sat through the first three movements and stood
on the first note of the finale, which was done almost attacca. Apparently
Ormandy felt the visual effect added to the drama.

The hard part was not nodding off, especially during the third movement. The
stage was warm, we were sitting very close together on risers, and the only
thing that kept me from falling asleep was the thought that a couple of
thousand people in the audience would be staring directly at me as I fell
over.

As a college junior/clarinet major, though, it was one of the most
enlightening experiences I had ever had, hearing at such close range what a
first rate orchestra actually sounded like.

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Wright [mailto:Bilwright@-----.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 9:36 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Beethoven 9th
>
>
> This isn't a clarinet question, but I'm curious and somebody here
> probably knows the answer......
>
> When Beethoven's 9th is performed, do the chorus and vocal soloists
> have to stand on stage through the entire symphony, or do they parade
> onto the stage just before they sing, or do they assemble behind a
> curtain which is raised at the appropriate moment to reveal the singers
> and thereby avoid a commotion-making parade?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
>
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