Klarinet Archive - Posting 000095.txt from 2003/05

From: EClarinet@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Re: Darius Milhaud Petit Concert/Anouilh
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 18:59:18 -0400

Hi to James L. and all....

I just saw this post (below) from April 8, and had to respond. IN 1986 in
Orlando at Valencia Community College I played 'The Musician' in a Jean
Anouilh play called "Theives Carnival", which is the english translation of
'Bal de Voluers'. The music was not by Milhaud; there was a piano track
that I had to play along with, and I even had to improvise some mood music a
capella. In the end, my character came back on stage disguised as a
detective, who makes the surprise announcement that ends the show, and then
whips out the clarinet and starts to play! It was great fun.

I would be very curious to see Milhaud's music for this show.

Elise Curran
Orlando
EClarinet@-----.com

<<<My understanding is that the movements
of this arrangement for clarinet and piano
are based on incidental music for unaccompanied
clarinet composed by Milhaud for the
play "Bal de voleurs" by Anouilh.

In this play the clarinetist plays the role
of "The Orchestra" at a resort, which plays
music that the characters listen to and comment
on. The player also remains on stage--unseen
(most of the time) by other characters)--
to play scene-setting music. It's an amusing
effect in that script.

The only time I saw this play staged was
at ACT in San Francisco. The role of The
Orchestra was played by a saxophonist, rather
than a clarinet player. I don't know if any
of Milhaud's original music for the play was
used in this performance.>>>

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