Klarinet Archive - Posting 000648.txt from 2004/01

From: "Lacy, Edwin" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] RE: Selmer Brevette
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:51:34 -0500

Dan Leeson wrote:

<<<The Peter and the Wolf music was originally written for a full-Boehm
B-flat clarinet and the low E-flat allowed the famous solo to be
played.>>>

Let me tell you how this was managed the first time I ever played Peter
and the Wolf. This was when I was a freshman or sophomore in college,
at approximately the time when Prokofiev's piece was still new music!
;-) The principal clarinetist in the orchestra had only one instrument,
a standard Boehm system Bb. So, when the time arrived for the low Eb to
be played, I, playing principal bassoon, played that note for him. It
was not an entirely successful solution, but no one in our audience of
elementary school children seemed to mind too much.

BTW, where I was living and going to school, which in fact was not far
from where I was born, the title of this piece was pronounced "Peter and
the Wuff!" ;-)

Ed Lacy
University of Evansville

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