Klarinet Archive - Posting 000888.txt from 2001/06

From: alevin@-----. Levin)
Subj: Re: [kl] Mahler Symphony No. 1
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:50:31 -0400

We might add that Vl I and II, Va, Vc I, II and III, and Cb I and II (but
not III) are all instructed to play harmonics. This creates an extra
octave gap between the bottom A and all of the harmonic A's. The first
time I heard it live (at a New York Phil. concert at the Philly Academy of
Music in September, 1966 or '67) I nearly had an orgasm.

At 10:15 PM 6/28/01 -0700, you wrote:
>At the beginning of Mahler Symphony No. 1, there is a high pitched and
>ppp "drone" (if "drone" is the correct word for a higher pitched but
>steady sound).
>
>What instrumentation is it?
>
>Thank you,
> Bill Wright
>
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