Klarinet Archive - Posting 000126.txt from 2005/11

From: Gary Smith <gary622@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Tchaikovsky 6th bass clarinet in 1st movement?
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:59:17 -0500

Our SO is going to play this later this season. In the Tchaikovsky 6th
symphony, there is a passage scored to have the bassoon play a low
line in the 1st movement. My conductor (himself a bassoonist!) asked
me to look into how this is done when the bass clarinet substitutes,
as is commonly done. I'm frankly unfamiliar with this music - I've
heard it, but I've never read it. Anyone ever played it this way, and
can it be pulled off with a total of 2 clarinets in the section, i.e.
can the 2nd (or the 1st, for that matter) pick up a BBb and play it,
or are all 3 clarinets employed at that moment?

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