Klarinet Archive - Posting 000073.txt from 2007/06

From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Who whacked the 2nd clarinet?
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:43:00 -0400

Of course, you could avoid the problem of someone's taking over his part
if the piece were the Mozart 40th and the librarian heroically (and
quickly) retrieved the orchestra's set of parts for the version without
clarinets to substitute for the one with clarinet parts. The oboists
then get to play most of the clarinets' licks and the worried principal
clarinet player can be anxious off stage.

Karl

Lelia Loban 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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