Klarinet Archive - Posting 000039.txt from 2009/11

From: "Mike Vaccaro" <mike@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Interesting C clarinet part
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:12:18 -0500

I think that many times orchestrators and composers don't know what our
instruments do or sometimes even the range. I run across this quite often
even with fine composer/orchestrators.
Mike Vaccaro

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From: "Clark Fobes" <claroneman@-----.net>
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 3:09 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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