Klarinet Archive - Posting 000512.txt from 2004/10

From: "Thiel, Mark" <thielm@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] the Worst Scenery Ever
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:28:46 -0400

Adam wrote:
> . . .
>Were the musicians a local so called pickup orchestra (I imagine more
>likely) or a traveling orchestra? If the former, it would be hard to
blame
>Russia for any shortage of bassoons at the performance.

>Was the bass clarinet playing the bassoon part?
> . . .

The program listed the "Stanislavsky Opera Company Orchestra" with
mostly Russian-sounding names.
I didn't consciously hear the bass clarinet, any synthesized bassoon or
anything else I could identify as coming from the keyboards. I peered
in the pit during an intermission but the musicians and instruments were
mostly gone. It wasn't overly packed. One of the (electronic)
keyboards seemed to have some kind of bass part, but I couldn't really
see it. I don't know the score well enough to know if there are any
bassoon or tympani solos I should have heard. The clarinet solos were
nice, however.

>I have a
>trombone player friend that used to sit on the trap door exit (I kid
you
>not) of the pit his opera orchestra played in.

I've never sat on an exit, but I have played on an elevated bandstand at
the back of the stage where we had to beg a cast member to put a stool
in position to use as a step if we wanted to get off.

Mark Thiel

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