Klarinet Archive - Posting 000362.txt from 2004/01

From: Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] George Silfies/Strauss' Happy Workshop
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:55:34 -0500

According to the B&H website, the study score is in print. However, I
could not find a price or any of the usual suspects selling it. It did say
it was 290 pages long!

Gary
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At 03:06 PM 1/12/04, you wrote:
>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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