Klarinet Archive - Posting 000190.txt from 2007/01

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Woodwind Soiree at Juilliard
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:29:49 -0500


Ken Shaw wrote,
>>Juilliard presented a wonderful, and free,
>>Woodwind Soiree last night in the Peter
>>Jay Sharp Theater.

Thanks for the review! I've been reading the thread about the Mendelssohn
Octet arrangement with particular interest, since my husband plays violin
in the original octet now and then, when he and his chamber music friends
can muster enough people in a large enough living room (not ours!). I've
swiped the first violin part off his music stand a couple of times and
messed around with it, enviously and not too successfully.

Ken Shaw wrote,
>>First, Mendelssohn wrote the Octet for a
>>homogeneous ensemble -- a string symphony,
>>not a double quartet. The varying woodwind
>>colors spoiled that character. Also, the voices
>>are constantly handed off.

That's one of the things I'd wondered about. One of the glories of that
piece is the first violin's spectacular, sustained passage of eighth notes
that begins 43 measures before the end. Did Charles Neidich play that
alone? (Circular breathing?) I'd hate to hear that passage broken up among
different instruments.

Lelia Loban

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