Klarinet Archive - Posting 000037.txt from 2009/11

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Interesting C clarinet part
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:25:12 -0500

This is a wonderful example of how edition difference get propagated. While
I do not know exactly what happened in this instance, we have to keep in
mind that Otello is in the public domain and that allows some other
publisher to create and print their own set of performance parts, an act
that automatically creates differences that range from minor to significant.

And even if that does not happen, Ricordi (which was and still is the main
publisher of Verdi's music) will make changes to the printed parts for any
of a dozen reasons. (The plates wear out. The parts are printed in an old
fashioned way and need to look more modern, etc.) That takes Verdi out of
the loop and can lead to situations that have bedeviled Clark Fobes. That
is, he finds a C clarinet part with a low D in it, and Forest Aten playing
the same work in the new Dallas Opera house finds no C clarinet part at all.

It sometimes is a wonder that the same music comes out under circumstances
like these.

Dan Leeson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 8:50 PM
Subject: RE: [kl] Interesting C clarinet part

> 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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