Klarinet Archive - Posting 000474.txt from 2003/12

From: Ed Wojtowicz <ewoj@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] "Mozart" Cassazione?
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:24:30 -0500

> From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
>
>> I didn't know there was a Mozart Tenor Sax concerto. Could anyone lend
>> me the music ; )
>>
>
> Happy to, providing you have the needed tenor sax in A.

Dan,

is it OK to use a Bb tenor or perhaps a C-melody? I personally don't hear
any difference in sound and prefer these instruments over the A tenor.
Besides, I don't think that the composer had any idea what he wanted when he
requested this instrument. Besides, my conductor Maestro Bag O'Wind told me
he called the infamous Stanley Rocker who said if I can't transpose it onto
the Bb I should be fired on the spot. He may have also said something about
a darker Belgian sound, but that is a different story. (He may have been
discussing chocolate, but I had tuned out at that point)

>Hardly known is
> the fact that Mozart used both texor saxes in B-flat and A based on the
> character of sound that he wanted. To support the robust voice of Don
> Giovanni, he uses the A instrument. But for the lighter duet sung by
> Zerlina and Mr. Clean he uses the tenor in B-flat. Once, in the opera
> The Hiccupping Dog, he used tenors in both A and B-flat at the same time.
>
> I presumed that everyone knew this. It's fairly much common knowledge.

That is why it is great to have your contributions here. That, and those
sexy stories about Polish girls at polka-fests!

>
> Dan
>

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