Klarinet Archive - Posting 000480.txt from 2004/07

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Where was I?
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:03:48 -0400

Now that's ironic. In the book the Forger practices his copying
skills by forging a single page of the Magic Flute manuscript and
then presenting his forged page with a xerographic copy of the
manuscript's facsimile of the real page. Naturally, it is such a
magnificent forgery that his partner is unable to judge which is
real and which is the forgery. The music used during for the
forgery is one page of the Queen of the Night aria. Now it is
really ironic if that page was being performed at the moment that
Tony read that page in the book.

Tony, did you double on the basset horn part? Very often, when
done here on the west coast, they either use clarinets in place
of bassets, or else they hire two extra players, which is dumb.
But few contractors know that clarinet players double on basset
horns and are glad to do it because here you get a 25% bonus for
doubling, plus another bonus if you play principal. The basset
horn music for Magic Flute consists of only two works, but what
works they are!!! The March of the Priests and one of Sarastro's
bass arias, I think "O Isis und Osiris." The other bass aria
caused George Bernard Shaw to say that "It is the only piece of
music that would not sound out of place in the mouth of God."

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Pay [mailto:tony.p@-----.org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 7:13 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Where was I?

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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