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 Weber Quintet: String orchestra version?
Author: Ralph G 
Date:   2004-12-02 18:38

Tonight I play my first rehearsal of the Weber 2 first movement with my chamber orchestra. I'm scheduled to perform it in April.

I'm sure we'll all sound awful tonight (last rehearsal of the semester, just a read-through session of stuff on tap for the spring), but I'll get an idea if we can collectively put it together off in four months. I want to have a backup piece ready in case it's just too hard on the orchestra (string sections include a lot of high schoolers). I'm thinking the finale of the Weber Quintet. Would it be feasible to assign the string parts to entire sections (have all cellos play the cello part, etc.), or is there a different arrangement for a whole string orchestra? I know Sabine Meyer plays it with a string orchestra on her recording, so I'm wondering if it's a whole different arrangement.

Funny thing -- I'm stuck with Weber pieces for any possible backup since we've already had posters printed up announcing Weber in the program. Reminds me of that scene in "Ed Wood" where Ed asks George Weiss if there's a script for the sex change movie he's producing, and Weiss says, "@#%& no! But we have a poster!"

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