Klarinet Archive - Posting 000938.txt from 2000/08

From: "Dr. Laroy Borchert" <lborcher@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Don Giovanni/Improvisation
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 18:00:07 -0400

The part is fun but also repetitive. I certainly enjoyed improvising on
some of those parts, although it was made a little more difficult when when
of the actors offered me a chicken leg while I was playing.
________

Dr. Laroy Borchert
Professor of Clarinet
Music Department
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003
(505) 646-3735 (office)

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From: <klarinet-digest-help@-----.org>
Subject: klarinet Digest 28 Aug 2000 20:15:01 -0000 Issue 2500
> Thirty-two years ago:-) I was given my most startling professional
> opportunity to that date by a man called Mansel Bebb, who was at the
> time the orchestral manager of the English Chamber Orchestra.
>
> The gig was to play first clarinet in the ECO recording of Don Giovanni,
> with Joan Sutherland as Donna Anna, conducted by Bonynge, her husband.
> Naturally, I immediately got the score and a recording, and learnt all
> the clarinet bits.
>
> The best bit, I thought, was the bit at the end, the dinner scene, where
> a little band plays excerpts from other operas to accompany the food,
> before the arrival of the Commendatore.
>
> *However*, when we got to that part, some *other* clarinet players
> turned up, and *they* got to play what I'd been looking forward to.
>
> Of course, there are other nice clarinet bits -- 'Mi tradi', for example
> -- but still....!
>
> But Mansel Bebb is now the orchestral manager of the Philharmonia
> orchestra, and last week he rang to ask whether I was free to play
> in....the stage band for a recording of Don Giovanni....
>
> So the day before yesterday it was the turn of the *Phiharmonia* first
> clarinet to be upstaged in a recording.
> ***********************************

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