Klarinet Archive - Posting 001216.txt from 2003/04

From: myke cuthbert <cuthbert@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Famous Alto or Basset Solos?
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 03:04:19 -0400

Tony@-----.uk [ Apr 26 ]:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 07:42:13 -0700, leeson0@-----.net said:
>
> > I can't comment on alto clarinet solo passages, but the literature has
> > at least a good dozen major solos for basset horn.
>
> [snip of solos]
>
> Pity you missed simultaneously dancing and playing the basset horn in
> Stockhausen's 'Licht', Dan.

Ah, but are the tight outfits supposed to distract from the tone of
the 6 leger line notes or vice versa?

As far as alto clarinet solos, if memory serves, the original version
of Stravinsky's "Symphonies of Wind Instruments" has several extended
duets for alto clarinet and flute. These are rewritten for Bb clar +
fl. in the 1947 version. {interestingly, the New Grove reports a 1945
version w/o clarinets! I've never heard of this one}. Also among
Stravinsky's work, the miniature "Elegy for JFK" for Mezzo-soprano and
3 clarinets (Bb, Bb, Alto) has some wonderful alto clarinet writing.

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