Klarinet Archive - Posting 000902.txt from 2001/09

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Contra Bass Clarinet and Orchestra
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 23:05:36 -0400

Clark Fobes mentions the following piece:

Schoenberg "Five Pieces for Orchestra" (Contra Bass in A!) dbls on clarinet....

Gee, Clark, you just awakened a memory that I would have preferred to have remained DORMANT.

It must have been in the late 60's and I was just a kid, but a precocius and pushy one.

The Toledo Symphony had scheduled this piece and was looking for someone to play this part. (This was before I was contracted there).

When asked if I could play the part, I said SURE, no problem, then struggled like crazy to find a contra that would play at all, and then transpose the part, then try to keep the damn thing from squeeking all the time.

Somehow, I made it through the experience whole, and wonder of wonders, they actually hired me a few years later!!!!!!!!

I would rather have never recalled that one Clark!

Walter

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