Klarinet Archive - Posting 000054.txt from 2007/06

From: Simeon Loring <sloring1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: least favourite part
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:04:56 -0400

re the Gypsy Baron solo, play it up a half-step on the A clarinet.
Simeon
On Jun 11, 2007, at 9:25 AM, David Blumberg wrote:

> From: Peter Stoll <peterstoll2000@-----.ca>
> Subject: least favourite part
> Message-ID: <413862.65031.qm@-----.com>
>
> I remember a fiendishly-difficult over-the-break lick
> in I think Stokowski's arrangement of Bach's Toccata
> and Fugue in D minor for full (very full!) orchestra.
> It's where the fugue itself starts from what I
> remember. I once saw a professional orchestra on TV
> playing it, when it came to the moment where the whole
> clarinet section has a soli on the tune, they did a
> close-up, the principal's fingers were flying, the
> other players hands weren't moving!! So much for
> convincing fakery. Anyone else had to tackle this
> piece, is it as bad as I remember? I was in high
> school, more than 6 months ago now :)
>
> Peter
>
> Peter Stoll
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>
> That's a bit tricky, not too bad though (band arrangement is the
> same back and forth over the break B).
> Quite difficult part (if tongued) is Sorcerers Apprentice where
> "all h*ll breaks loose" and the 16th triplets are tongued- easy to
> multiple tongue, really hard to single tongue that quickly.
> Another really hard part is the Strauss Gypsy Baron Waltz taken at
> a quick tempo - not only back and forth over the break, but lots
> and lots of F#, G#, A back and forth and it's a solo. Gigliotti
> used to tell me that it was his "least favorite passage".
> And one last one - the solo ending of the Ginastera Variaciones
> Concertantes op 23 up to 6 leger line high D. Montanaro used to
> take over Gigliotti's solo at the end when it approached and
> finished off the run.
>
> David Blumberg
> www.mytempo.com
>
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