Klarinet Archive - Posting 000033.txt from 2009/11

From: "Clark Fobes" <claroneman@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Interesting C clarinet part
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:09:06 -0500


I was subbing for a rehearsal of Othello with the SF Opera a few days ago
and was very interested to see a written low D in the 2nd clarinet part
which in that section was for C clarinet. I wonder if Verdi was writing for
a specific instrument or if he just did not know that the soprano clarinets
did not go that low? Verdi was such a wonderful orchestrator by the time he
got to his late Operas that you would think he would be aware of the range
of all of the woodwinds.

Clark W Fobes

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