Klarinet Archive - Posting 000366.txt from 2004/01

From: "Benjamin Maas" <benmaas@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Berlioz program BerliozFestival
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:03:10 -0500

If you show up to the hall, you may be able to get a rush ticket. They =
have
a public (not just students) rush policy where a couple hours before the
show, tickets are released to go on sale at a discount rate. You should
look into that...

--Ben

Benjamin Maas
Fifth Circle Audio
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.fifthcircle.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Audrey Travis [mailto:vsofan@-----.ca]=20
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 4:21 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Berlioz program BerliozFestival
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> Tony
> It's not that you've whetted my appetite in vain because of a=20
> particular excerpt
> not being played, but that I can't *find* a ticket, one=20
> single ticket, to the
> show, period. Your first post on the matter did, indeed have=20
> me salivating a -
> terrific descriptions - thank you. I'll keep trying to get a=20
> ticket closer to
> show time.
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> Thanks very much!
> Audrey
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> Tony Pay wrote:
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> >
> > Berlioz pretty much always features clearly audible=20
> *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=20
> 'Nuits d'=E9t=E9' is one of
> > my all-time favourite pieces, quite apart from its=20
> wonderfully telling if
> > economical clarinet part; and if they do 'Romeo at the tomb=20
> of the Capulets'
> > in the extracts, then there's a striking clarinet solo=20
> representing Juliet's
> > awakening. It's very twentieth-century -- fragmented and=20
> disoriented,
> > interleaved with violent cello/bass passages, as she comes=20
> to realise the
> > situation. Depending on who plays it, it can be=20
> spine-tinglingly dramatic --
> > a wonderfully original idea of Berlioz's.
> >
> > Of course, you can be unlucky. (You can get someone whose=20
> priority is to
> > make 'their clarinet playing', 'sound easy', for example.) =20
> But I guess
> > you're probably onto a winner here.
> >
> > And surely you want to hear the virtuoso 'Queen Mab'=20
> scherzo, which they'll
> > undoubtedly do? (It's all wonderful, but you might want to=20
> listen for the
> > hoppity second clarinet solo half-way through;-)
> >
> > I'd go!
> >
> > Tony
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