Klarinet Archive - Posting 000065.txt from 2007/06

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Who whacked the 2nd clarinet?
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:14:51 -0400

I need some help with a short-short mystery I'm writing, in which the
second clarinet player in an orchestra fails to take the stage after
intermission. The musicians don't know (yet) why he's missing. The
concert proceeds without him. After the concert, he's found murdered,
backstage.

What I need is a suggestion for an orchestral work, long enough and
important enough for the second half of a concert (a symphony or a ballet
suite, for instance), in which a second clarinet is necessary but, without
more than a couple minutes' notice, a different wind player would be able
to pick up the missing man's instrument and cover his part, or at least the
parts of his part where a missing second clarinet would be a conspicuous
problem. In other words, the other instrument's score has rests or is
expendable whenever the second clarinet really needs to be audible.
Suggestions?

Thanx!
Lelia Loban

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