Klarinet Archive - Posting 000001.txt from 2004/08

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Where was I?
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 07:35:44 -0400

Tony,

Did you see all the "disgusted from Tunbridge Wells" hoo haa recently
when players from the ENO were "caught" doing what you were doing?

I'm a regular at Covent Garden, and almost always sit in one of the
three seats just behind the conductor - and therefore can see how much
coming and going there is. It's never worried me, but seems to get up
some people's noses.

Is the Glyndebourne pit especially bad for being able to hear the stage,
or would the same go for Covent Garden or the Coliseum?

Matthew

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Pay [mailto:tony.p@-----.org]
Sent: 14 July 2004 15:13
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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