Klarinet Archive - Posting 000131.txt from 2003/06

From: myke cuthbert <cuthbert@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Famous Alto or Basset Solos?
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 12:05:28 -0400

[going way back to an old message]

Finally had a chance to look at this. Apparently (at least in the
Kalmus score) it's marked Clarinette Alto en Fa, hence my
misremembering. But it reminds me, wasn't there a movement in the 70s
(much later than the Stravinsky piece) to replace the Eb alto with an
F alto (I'd guess a large bore non-extended range basset horn; with
the larger alto mouthpiece?). I remember an exchange about this in
the Instrumentalist.

Also trying to come up off the top of my head with pieces
for/including alto clarinet where you'd be doing great damage to the
score by playing on b.h. and transposing. Trying to figure out if
there'd be any good justification (besides price) if purchasing only
one to choose the alto instead.

leeson0@-----.net [ Apr 27 ]:
> Regarding the original of Stravinsky's Symphonies of Winds, it was for
> basset horn, not alto clarinet. I played it with the San Diego Symphony
> a while back and the instrumentation intrigued me enough to research it.
> It was definitely the original and Stravinsky changed it for the 1947
> version.
>
> Dan

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