Klarinet Archive - Posting 000314.txt from 2004/09

From: "Blake Arrington" <klarinetteman@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Heckelphone
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:55:21 -0400

Don't forget Percy Grainger's "The Warriors." It has a heckelphone
part....wait maybe it's a bass sarrusaphone part. Oh well, correct me if
I'm wrong.

>From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: "klarinet@-----.org>
>Subject: [kl] Heckelphone
>Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:27:18 -0700
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>In at least three different works in which I participated, a
>Heckelphone was employed. They are Strauss' Salome, Elektra, and
>Alpine Symphony, though I am not 100% sure of Salome. My friend,
>the late Josef Marx of New York, played Heckelphone all over the
>east coast. It is an instrument with a weird sound and, in the
>case of Elektra, its use is always a precursor of death and
>destruction to come. Elektra's brother, Orestes, who has come to
>kill his stepfather and murder his mother, is introduced by the
>Heckelphone. In Salome (I think), at the moment that John the
>Baptist is decapitated and his head lifted on a silver platter
>onto the stage from a cistern (lots of funny stories about that
>one), I think the Heckelphone is used. In the Alpine symphony, I
>really can't say because I fell asleep right after we started
>playing it, and did not wake up for three days.
>
>Dan Leeson
>DNLeeson@-----.net
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J. Blake Arrington
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Principal Bass & Eb Clarinet--Irving Symphony Orchestra

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