Klarinet Archive - Posting 000122.txt from 2006/07

From: Laurence Beckhardt <lbeckhardt@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] "The Magic Flute"
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:06:05 -0400

nobody asked about Salome, for that matter.

you should start a new post, instead of discussing
Salome under the heading of "The Magic Flute"

talk about overloading a post.

is your basset horn on ebay yet?

--- Dan Leeson <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:

> The question that was posted is being overanswered.
>
> I posted a note about Magic Flute which I had seen
> in Santa Fe. I also
> included the names of all the clarinet players for
> this summer season of
> 2006. There was six or seven names.
>
> A young poster then asked why there were so many
> clarinet players. She said
> something like, "Why are more than 2 necessary?" It
> was clear that she was
> inexperienced and it was not an unreasonable
> question for a high-schooler.
>
> No one asked about the disposition of the
> clarinetists for Magic Flute,
> though I am grateful that Steve correctly described
> the specifics of the
> Magic Flute clarinet/basset horn demands. In his
> case, he cites that the
> practice of switching from clarinet to basset horn
> is the usual habit for
> the NY City Opera. It appears not to be the case
> for the Santa Fe opera
> because the clarinet players did not switch.
> Instead, two additional
> players busied themselves with the basset horns both
> at the end of act I and
> the beginning of act II.
>
> The young poster who started all this was not
> interested in the disposition
> of players for the Magic Flute, but rather why the
> Santa Fe opera lists six
> or seven names in the roster for clarinet players.
>
> Now on to new things: last night's performance was
> Salome, the Richard
> Strauss spectacular of 1903 or thereabouts.
> Considering the fact that the
> music is now 100 or more years old, it is still a
> remarkable composition,
> full of complexities, orchestrational effects, and
> technical demands that
> are quite arresting. I never played Salome, but I
> think it calls for four
> or five clarinetists who execute on A and B-flat for
> the first pair of
> players, an E-flat, and a bass. Unlike Elektra, it
> has no basset horns (a
> pair are needed for Elektra, which I have played)
> and the clarinettists
> switch from B-flat to A, also unlike Elektra where
> two players play B-flat
> and two additional player play on A.
>
> It's still quite a piece of music.
>
> Dan Leeson
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Hartman [mailto:sdh902@-----.net]
> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 7:18 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] "The Magic Flute"
>
>
> "The Magic Flute" has two clarinets, both of which
> switch to bassett horn at
> the end of Act I, if memory serves me correctly, and
> for the Masonic music
> at the beginning of Act II.
>
> Steve Hartman
> New York City Opera
>
>
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