Klarinet Archive - Posting 000014.txt from 2005/10

From: "kevin fay" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] K622
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 18:16:13 -0400

I have been asked - and I'm not making this up - to play the "Theme from Out
of Africa" for a church service. (For those of you that missed the Robert
Redford Chick Flick, this is the second movement of K622.) I will be
playing with pianist, not strings unfortunately.

There are many "editions" available - so many that Tony Pay won't do another
(since he thinks that there shouldn't be any editing at all). His rationale
makes great sense to me. Because there's no urtext, it's hard for one who
doesn't have time for Dan Leeson-ish scholarship to ascertain which one out
there contains the highest percentage of Mozart (i.e., the fewest "edits" to
ignore).

The only piano reduction that I own is the old International edition; I
think it cost me three bucks in high school. The clarinet part has all of
my "answers in the margin" (including all of the suggested articulations
whited-out), but it's yellow, brittle, and not very pretty any more. The
piano reduction would have me play clarinet in Bb, which I'm not wont to do.
I'd like to use something that is at least in the correct key.

I'll not be using a basset clarinet - not owning one, you see - so I don't
need/can't use someone's surmising of what notes Stadler played. Just
seeking the most appropriate clarinet + piano reduction that I can find.

Suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

kjf

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