Klarinet Archive - Posting 000479.txt from 2004/07

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Where was I?
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:12:38 -0400

On 14 Jul, Andy Raibeck <klari_1@-----.com> wrote:

> --- Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org> wrote:
> > On 14 Jul, Andy Raibeck <klari_1@-----.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > OK, a clue: the *geographical* location was near the village of
> > > > Glynde, in East Sussex, UK.
> > >
> > > Glyndebourne Festival Opera?
> >
> > Yes! And....(why the raised eyebrows?-)
>
> Because you were there for a performance of a work by Mozart ("The Magic
> Flute")?

Yes, that's the answer. And, there to play it, not just to see it. It's
with the OAE, splendidly conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.

There are huge gaps in the clarinet part of the Magic Flute, particularly in
the second act. You can't hear the stage all that clearly from the pit, so
the numbers you aren't in are frustrating to listen to, after a bit. Some
people go out, but that's a bit difficult from where the woodwind are. You
can daydream, do crosswords, read books.....

The other night we were playing the fifteenth of a sixteen-performance run,
and I'd just got Dan's book; so the upshot was that at one point Forger was
trying to forge the very work we were trying to play:-)

Tony
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