Klarinet Archive - Posting 000359.txt from 2001/09

From: Ragnhild <rkbrek99@-----.no>
Subj: Re: [kl] Really tough orchestral pieces
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 16:14:43 -0400

just a quick note from an "ousider..": Aren't there actually cases where a
composer with little or no knowledge of a specific instrument might write
parts that are (irtually or actually) *impossible* to play on the
instrument it's written for? what do you, as an instrumentalist, do then?
Ragnhild

At 15:13 11.09.01 -0400, you wrote:
>Dave,
>
>I do not know your playing backround. But, it seem that most professional
>clarintest should know how to handle these difficult parts. After all they
>make a living at it and that is what they tought to do. Play those
>difficult solo parts.
>
>Josh
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dave Spiegelthal" <Spiegelthal.Dave@-----.COM>
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 12:34 PM
>Subject: [kl] Really tough orchestral pieces
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>> A question to the professional clarinetists (and other musicians) out
>there:
>> Are there any orchestral works that are so difficult that even
>professional
>> orchestras have real problems playing them? This question comes to mind
>every
>> time I hear Ravel's Daphnis & Chloe, for instance, which just sounds to me
>like
>> it's horrendously difficult to play for every section of the orchestra
>(I've
>> never played it myself so I don't have first-hand experience). I used to
>think
>> that Rite of Spring was probably one such work, but having played it on
>bass
>> clarinet some years ago, I discovered it's not as hard to play as it
>sounds, but
>> nevertheless.......Some liner notes for one recording I have of Janacek's
>> Sinfonietta mentioned that the flute/piccolo parts in one of the
>movements, as
>> originally written, were so difficult that for many years every orchestra
>played
>> them down an octave. Are there other examples of this phenomenon?
>> A related question: If and when such a hypothetical piece of music is
>tackled
>> by a major symphony, how do the players handle it? Is there ever a
>situation
>> where a first-chair player in a major orchestra simply cannot play the
>music as
>> written, and if so, what happens? (no names need be mentioned, of course.)
>> David Spiegelthal
>> Calverton, VA
>> spiegelthal.dave@-----.com
>>
>> p.s. This may be a duplicate posting --- if so, I apologize!
>>
>>
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