Klarinet Archive - Posting 000645.txt from 2005/06

From: "Geoff & Sherryl-Lee Secomb" <gsecomb@-----.au>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fiddler Clarinetist
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:05:12 -0400

Hi Karl.
'Cats' was a professional show I played which was also done this way, except
that everything we heard (since as players we didn't see anything) was from
sound monitors, as the orchestra was completely isolated in an offstage
enclosure. Sure, you get used to doing things a certain way, but live
performances have a way of reminding you not to get too complacent!
Geoff.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Fiddler Clarinetist

> Well, it certainly *could* have been done with video monitors in the front
> apron, although they were well hidden from the audience it it was done
> that way. The conductor had a perfectly clear view of the actors and the
> entire stage, just no eye contact unless the singer happened to be looking
> directly across from stage left.
>
> I was especially interested in how the ending of Sunrise, Sunset worked
> with its ritardando leading into a short caesura. It sounded clean, but I
> wasn't sure who was leading whom. I guess, though, when you do 7 shows a
> week for months (or years) on end, tempo changes and fermati can pretty
> well become a conditioned reaction from everyone - after all, some shows
> are accompanied by a recorded or synthesized track and everything is of
> necessity exactly the same every performance (I've often wondered what
> happens in the ice shows that travel in the U.S. if a skater falls and
> throws the whole routine off - the synth and voice tracks just keep going,
> I guess, as though nothing happened).
>
> Karl
>
> Geoff & Sherryl-Lee Secomb wrote:
>> As MD of a number of amateur productions, we use cameras and monitor
>> screens for these kinds of situations. Last year I did West Side Story,
>> with no direct contact with the cast, as they saw me and I saw them via
>> TV only! Next year, as it happens, I am also doing Fiddler.
>> Cheers,
>> Geoff
>> AUSTRALIA
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl Krelove"
>> <karlkrelove@-----.net>
>> To: "Klarinet" <klarinet@-----.org>
>> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 9:01 AM
>> Subject: [kl] Fiddler Clarinetist
>>
>>
>>> I was in New York yesterday to see the revival production of Fiddler On
>>> the Roof at the Minskoff Theater. A phenomenal production all-around.
>>> For the klezmer bit in the wedding scene, they brought a clarinetist on
>>> stage in costume. He played wonderfully, and I thought after his bit was
>>> over that I saw him go off stage to get rid of the clarinet and then, I
>>> thought, come back on as one of the background characters in the rest of
>>> the scene.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know (1) who the clarinetist is, (2) if he also plays
>>> clarinet in the pit orchestra (which is seated upstage right in full
>>> view) or he only plays the klezmer part.
>>>
>>> The Fiddler himself also inhabits the stage throughout the show, playing
>>> a wirelessly miked violin. I wondered how much control the orchestra
>>> conductor actually has over tempos and entrances, since he is about
>>> midstage and all the way to the right (next to the wing) so most of the
>>> time neither the leads, the chorus nor the Fiddler is facing him.
>>>
>>> Anyone know?
>>>
>>> Karl Krelove
>>>
>
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