Klarinet Archive - Posting 000361.txt from 2001/09

From: "Lacy, Edwin" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Really tough orchestral pieces
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 16:14:45 -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?

The problem is that if a composer writes something that is regarded as
impossible to play, someone will eventually learn to play it. Then,
everybody has to learn how. Otherwise, that passage will be sure to turn up
on audition lists.

Ed Lacy
EL2@-----.edu

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