Klarinet Archive - Posting 000274.txt from 2004/10

From: "Patricia A. Smith" <arlyss1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Interesting doubles
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 20:30:01 -0400

Walter wrote:

>On the Wed rehearsal, with the show opening Friday night, I was suddenly and rather rudely asked where the hell the English Horn was!
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>The artist was Vikki Carr, (remember her), and she had recently recorded "Send in the Clowns" with english horn playing the usual clarinet obbligato. She wanted her performance to match her recording - a probably reasonable request, but the contractor had never noticed the requirement in what ever list he was working from.
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>Well, I have never so much as touched an English Horn, let alone play one in public. I did not have easy access to one, and had no reeds. To top it off, they were offering no extra pay, in fact I was playing five instruments and they were paying for only three. So I balked and said I would play it on clarinet (there was even an alternate clarinet part available).
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>Well, I wound up getting yelled at by Vikki Carr - and being called an incompetent. This was surely one of the highpoints of my musical career!
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>Another time, I'll tell you how I was called a pervert by Mr. Rogers!
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After being called "incompetent" by Vicki Carr due to not being able to
produce an English horn as if by magic (actually "for real" with REAL
magic!), I shudder to even consider what on earth Mr. Rogers called you
a pervert for...could it have been for using Eb clarinet to cover a
piccolo part? Contrabass to cover a Tuba part? Surely not reasons for
calling into question your presence in decent society, I should hope!

Patricia Smith

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