Klarinet Archive - Posting 000290.txt from 2004/02

From: Tski1128@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Pit work
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:14:49 -0500

I'm enjoying a change for the next few weeks. Instead of the myriad of Weddings and Bar Mitzvahs, I usually do, I'm doing 2 months of Sweeney Todd at Baltimore's Center stage. This is not the full blown symphony on the cast recording, this is a version for Clarinet/Flute, bassoon, horn, violin, piano/conductor, and bass. The cut down version of this sounds really cool, there are spots that sounds very much like "A Soldier's Tale".

Sitting down and doing rehearsals last week was mind blowing. There are so many safty measures, bars repeated and road maps on the parts there are moments when I need a GPS to figure out where we are. But by far the hardest part of the gig is playing the flute, and trying to sound like a good flute player, simple stuff like clean articulation, nice sound, playing really piano and ledger lines out the Yin yang. I'll never say bad things about flute players again, or untill I'm in another quintet! Later Tom Puwalski, former Clarient soloist with the US Army Field Band, author of the Clarinetists Guide to Klezmer and clarinetist with Lox&Vodka

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