Klarinet Archive - Posting 000058.txt from 2011/11

From: leesondaniel899@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Mahler 1
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:36:05 -0500

It all depends on how a good an instrument stand you have. The Blayman stand for bass clarinet can hold the bass plus 4 additional clarinet in the footprint of about 1 square foot. Sometimes, when I played Rosenkavalier, I put both the bass and the basset horn on one Blayman stand (not the easiest fit but it worked) and the bass in A on the other.

Dan Leeson

----- Original Message -----
From: hns692@-----.com
To: klarinet@-----.com
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 12:31:52 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Mahler 1

How difficult is it to move between the large and small horns? I have a
problem going between A and Bb and Bb and Eb. Between alto Sax and Bb isn't
any better. I'd think someone with small hands would have fits --and
cramps!

Lee Ann

In a message dated 11/14/2011 1:46:06 P.M. Central Standard Time,
leesondaniel899@-----.net writes:

I remind Simon that the bass part is for bass in A as well as bass in
B-flat. Since I owned an A bass clarinet, I played the work with 6 clarinets
using two Blayman bass clarinet stands, each with two extensions for the
soprano clarinets. Everyone said I looked as if I were the proprietor of a
clarinet factory.

I did play the D part on E-flat but seriously considered buying a D. Good
sense got through to me and I didn't.

It is a wonderful piece!! But I have a vague recollection that the D part
is separate from an E-flat clarinet part as expected to be played by the
bass clarinet player, though my memory on this matter may be flawed.

Dan Leeson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Aldrich" <simonaldrich@-----.ca>
To: klarinet@-----.com
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 9:53:08 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Mahler 1

>I saw the Rochester Philharmonic play Mahler 2 earlier this year. There
were 5 clarinetists for that piece!
> I can't imagine what it cost for all that (2 performances + however many
rehearsals).

By his 5th symphony, perhaps Mahler was becoming sensitive to orchestra's
budgets :)
In his 5th symphony he gives all the "extra" clarinet parts to one player.
The third clarinet plays 5 clarinets: bass, Bb, C, A and D (more commonly
transposed onto Eb).
One summer at National Repertory Orchestra, the bass clarinetist didn't
have an Eb so we did the 5th Symphony with 4 players. Despite being there as
principal clarinet, I had my D clarinet with me so I sat beside the bass
clarinet and played the D clarinet parts, occasionally transposing them onto
Eb for more zing (the timbres of D and Eb clarinets being quite
dissimilar). Plus I took the liberty of doubling the raucous and bells-up sections on
soprano clarinets. We were students and not yet sensitized to the
contentious issue of honouring composers' intentions :)

Simon
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