Klarinet Archive - Posting 000365.txt from 2004/01

From: Audrey Travis <vsofan@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Berlioz program BerliozFestival
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 19:30:00 -0500

Tony
It's not that you've whetted my appetite in vain because of a particular excerpt
not being played, but that I can't *find* a ticket, one single ticket, to the
show, period. Your first post on the matter did, indeed have me salivating a -
terrific descriptions - thank you. I'll keep trying to get a ticket closer to
show time.

Thanks very much!
Audrey

Tony Pay wrote:

>
> Berlioz pretty much always features clearly audible *everything*. And
> Salonen will undoubtedly make that 'everything' even clearer. It's
> brilliant, life-affirming music.
>
> I don't remember much about the middle two items, but 'Nuits d'été' is one of
> my all-time favourite pieces, quite apart from its wonderfully telling if
> economical clarinet part; and if they do 'Romeo at the tomb of the Capulets'
> in the extracts, then there's a striking clarinet solo representing Juliet's
> awakening. It's very twentieth-century -- fragmented and disoriented,
> interleaved with violent cello/bass passages, as she comes to realise the
> situation. Depending on who plays it, it can be spine-tinglingly dramatic --
> a wonderfully original idea of Berlioz's.
>
> Of course, you can be unlucky. (You can get someone whose priority is to
> make 'their clarinet playing', 'sound easy', for example.) But I guess
> you're probably onto a winner here.
>
> And surely you want to hear the virtuoso 'Queen Mab' scherzo, which they'll
> undoubtedly do? (It's all wonderful, but you might want to listen for the
> hoppity second clarinet solo half-way through;-)
>
> I'd go!
>
> Tony

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