Klarinet Archive - Posting 000757.txt from 2001/10

From: Virginia Anderson <assembly1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: "softer, gentler" side to the Eb/purpose
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 09:38:48 -0400

on 19/10/01 9:15 pm, "Debbie Shipton" <canbobfixit@-----.com> wrote:

> I currently play in a non-auditioned wind orchestra that plays pieces such
> as Arnold's Scottish Dances and Hart's (?) Cartoon. In the auditioned
> Symphonic Wind Ensemble, we are playing Atnold's Cornish Dances and Saint
> Saens Orient and Occident and we have a new commision by Ellerby to look
> forward too next term. I am yet to see any of this music, so I don't know
> what the Eb parts are like.
>
> In the Symphony Orchestra, there is a very tricky looking Eb part in
> Walton's Belshazzar Feast that should be interesting to play. Again, we've
> only just tsarted rehearsals, so I've not seen much of the music, but I'll
> be sure to let you know how it goes when we get to it

I thought that I'd know some of your band repertoire but I've not played
these. Some of the old Illinois band transcriptions from the 1960s - the
ones in manuscript - have some good Eb solos. If you get bored with what
the band gives you, do try solo or chamber work. Jack Brymer's chapter on
playing string music with clarinets in his book on the clarinet is useful if
you've never tried such work. Or you could ask a friendly composition
student for a piece.

For other Eb questions, Josh, it sounds as if your Buffet R-13 may be out of
tune. My Bb R-13 was problematic, but I took it to Brian Ackerman in east
London, who builds old clarinet and flute reproductions. He did a full
overhaul on my instrument and it came back playing beautifully in tune.
This is a job for a specialist, not the average repair person. And the
normal range on band Eb is e (g is less common). A good eefer should play
to top a with effort, but I wouldn't want a lot of fast technical work up
there. The only way I got higher (a top c# written in an early version of
one commissioned piece) was through a fake (teeth on reed).

Cheers,

Virginia
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Virginia Anderson
Leicester, UK
<vanderson@-----.uk>
Experimental Music Catalogue: <http://www.experimentalmusic.co.uk>
...experimental music since 1969....

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