Klarinet Archive - Posting 000038.txt from 2011/04
From: Diego Casadei <casadei.diego@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Allegra, Stravinsky and Full Boehm
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 02:44:56 -0400
Dear all,
I don't know what happened in reality, but I don't think that the second
movement of the Three Pieces is practical in a transposition on a B-flat
clarinet. If Allegra premiered the work, it probably means that he was
in close contact with Stravinsky -- I'm just guessing -- and the
composer would have probably avoided to require an A clarinet for this
work if the player could not play it.
Cheers,
Diego
PS. I'm Italian and I was trained in transposition following the
tradition. But there are technical limits to what one can achieve: it
is not just a reading problem :-)
Margaret Thornhill wrote:
> Dear Soo Goh,
>
> My teacher, Rosario Mazzeo, was a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
> along with Allegra. He played full Boehm and told me that the clarinet
> section would often keep themselves from becoming bored by playing concerts
> entirely on one or the other clarinet, transposing. Of course they had to
> have the low e-flat on the B-flat clarinet in order to do this.
>
> Maybe this is your answer.
>
> I have always assumed Stravinsky wrote that note to take advantage of the
> full Boehm.
>
> Regards
>
> Margaret Thornhill
> Los Angeles
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