Klarinet Archive - Posting 000554.txt from 2001/05

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mahler 1
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 13:46:56 -0400

The bass part is an E-flat double (at least) and during the time that
the bass switches to E-flat, the two E-flat clarinets are required to
play together with the more exposed line handled by the bass/E-flat
player. Because I always felt that switching from bass to E-flat was an
unnatural act, whenever I played the work, I preferred that the other
E-flat player should handle the more exposed role, and we worked that
out. The fact is that going from a bass mouthpiece to an E-flat
mouthpiece with no preparation whatsoever for an exposed passage is not
something I wanted to do.

You might consider this, or if your bass player can do E-flat things
that I was uncomfortable with, then there is no significant problem.

Dan Leeson

LoriLovato@-----.com wrote:
>
> Greetings List;
>
> Does anyone recall the doublings for
> the 4 clarinet parts in Mahler #1? From my
> Dover score it appears that there are 2 Eb parts,
> and Bass Clarinet? We are performing this
> piece in September with Santa Fe and I would
> like to assign parts soon. Perhaps the question
> should be, which parts need which doublers?
> In other words does the part for Eb/Bass/Bb/A
> need a strong bass or Eb player? Thanks!
>
> Lori Lovato
> 2nd/Eb NMSO, SFS, 3-2Jazz
>
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