Klarinet Archive - Posting 000978.txt from 2004/10

From: Adam Michlin <amichlin@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Appealing to the superficial
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:40:38 -0500

Patricia,

Par for the course with the military bands. Check out the latest edition
(ed. Colin Matthews) of the Holst 1st and 2nd Suite and compare the
originally published Boosey instrumentation with Holst's autograph score.

I always found that bass saxophone part rather annoying.

-Adam

At 05:25 PM 10/31/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Ooh, I wish someone had told whoever did the original instrumentation
>design for Navy bands THIS! Talk about a huge improvement over what I
>recall coping with for nearly fourteen years worth of ceremonial band work:
>
>Three or four trumpets, Two alto saxophones, two tenor saxophones, two or
>three trombones, one euphonium (if we were lucky) one tuba, a snare drum,
>a bass drum, one piccolo, three clarinets....
>
>I'm completely serious.

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