Klarinet Archive - Posting 000068.txt from 2007/06

From: "Curtis Bennett" <curtis.bennett@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Who whacked the 2nd clarinet?
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:32:24 -0400

How about Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique? It has a very important
two-part clarinet theme in the 4th (IIRC) movement.

On 6/12/07, Lelia Loban <lelialoban@-----.net> wrote:
> 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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