Klarinet Archive - Posting 000035.txt from 2009/11

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Interesting C clarinet part
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:50:53 -0500

Otello :-)

C clarinet? We're doing Otello now in Dallas...I'm playing bass...but I have all three parts in my book and I have no C
clarinet part written.

My music is at the hall....I'll look carefully again tomorrow.

Forest

-----Original Message-----
From: Clark Fobes [mailto:claroneman@-----.net]
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 5:09 PM
To: Klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] Interesting C clarinet part

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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