Klarinet Archive - Posting 000064.txt from 2003/05

From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Halsey Stevens Suite
Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 11:55:48 -0400

My son is practicing a Halsey Stevens trumpet sonata for an upcoming jury
exam, so I was inspired the other day to pull out my copy of the Stevens
Suite for Clarinet (or Viola) and Piano - 1959 Peters edition. I haven't
looked at this piece since joining Klarinet, so I never thought much about
which clarinet to use for the last two movements. The part is written
straight through for Bb clarinet (all four movements), and the Bb clarinet
transposition is what appears in the solo line throughout the piano part.
But then another two pages follow in the clarinet part showing an "Alternate
Version of 3rd and 4th Movements for Clarinet in A."

Never mind that the movements that are given in the alternate version are
actually movements 2 and 3 of the Bb part. I am curious, if anyone on the
list knows, as to who may have included the alternate part for A Clarinet -
was it Stevens or an editor. If Halsey Stevens himself did it (or requested
it of the engravers at Peters), was it still his wish for the two movements
to be played on a Bb clarinet? Neither version is especially awkward or hard
to handle. The A Clarinet transposition avoids many of the sharps in the Bb
part but requires some altissimo register changes that are avoided in the Bb
version.

Does anyone know the background of this?

Thanks.

Karl Krelove

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