Klarinet Archive - Posting 000359.txt from 2004/01

From: "Kevin Fay" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] George Silfies/Strauss' Happy Workshop
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:08:06 -0500

Dan Leeson wrote re Strauss' Happy Workshop:

<<<It is available only on rental from Boosey and Hawkes and it is
expensive. . . .Meanwhile, go to a BIG university library somewhere, get the
complete Strauss edition, and copy the score. You cannot buy that score
anywhere, so do it now.

One final thing. It calls for 1 C clarinet, 2 B-flat clarinets, 1 basset
horn, and 1 bass clarinet. Don't even think about trying the work with
subsitute instruments. I'd have to put out a onctract on you and the
conductor should you not heed my admonition.>>>

Of course, Strauss has not been dead for 75 years, so you'd be copying music
covered by copyright (presumably B&H's). As I've suggested a few times,
you're not likely to raise the high ire of music publishers for photocopying
unless it's rental music; since this is rental music, your risk increases.

The Happy Workshop is *considerably* more difficult than either of Strauss'
earlier wind serenades. I read with interest Dan's experience playing this
with George Silfies, rehearsed the C part on Bb. Even apart from the
transposition, doing that part on a Bb would be (to me at least) fiendishly
difficult. If you can get George Silfies, you'd be fine; lacking that
you'll have much better luck obtaining a C clarinet.

This is one of my favorite pieces.

kjf

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