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Author: Renato
Date: 2003-12-10 17:44
Pieces you really wanted to play... but nobody in the band/orchestra seems to care.
I've been trying to "push" a few of Astor Piazzolla's tangos... no luck though.
Bach's "Musical Offering".
Folk music from different parts of the world.
Anything that looks/sounds "too contemporary", "too dissonant", "too time-consuming".
Some pieces of my choice do make it onto the music stands, but the next time I look, they're gone...
By the way, I'm looking for something for an amateur chamber orchestra including the clarinet. Does anyone have a suggestion?
....Renato.
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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2003-12-10 19:38
Renato, I am not too familiar with Piazzolla, but I have enjoyed the Double Concerto for Guitar and Bandeòn, No doubt the Clarinet music sounds great, and I will look into that. Thanks for mentioning it.
Regards,
John
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2003-12-10 20:20
I'd really love to play Brahms Trio for Piano, clarinet and cello Op. 114 for next semester's chamber ensemble class performance, but I don't think I'll be able to find a piano player at my school that is skilled enough to play the piano part. We had trouble with Max Bruch's Nocturne with me, cello, and piano because of the piano player and I hear that the music for Brahms trio is harder for the piano. ![[frown]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie2.gif) Well. Maybe one day . . .
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2003-12-10 20:26
Renato, you can send me an email. I play in my college's chamber orchestra which is an amateur group. I'll send you a list (if you're interested) of all the pieces we've played.
Alexi
sfalexi@optonline.net
US Army Japan Band
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Author: Greystones
Date: 2003-12-10 20:35
What about Mozart Concertante for Four Winds.
We played it in our amateur orchestra a number of years ago and was extremely well received by the audience and was fantastic to play.
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Author: Lisa
Date: 2003-12-11 03:16
I'd love to play American Variations, but I never have. I have a recording of the senior band playing it when I was in the junior band.
I'm stretching this beyond the realms of band to personal experience only, but I'd love to play the cat in Peter and the Wolf, and that cadenza in Fiddler on the Roof's Bottle Dance. The recording of it just sends chills down my spine! I wouldn't necessarily want to perform either one, but I'd love to at least have the music to explore.
OK, back on topic, it would be fun to hear what a professional band would sound like playing a march called, "Salute to the PMEA." It's played at almost every freakin' high school festival in Pennsylvania, and while we were good back then, I'd like to hear how it would sound played by adults, and of course to bring back memories of good times. It's highly unlikely anyone outside of PA has heard of it, much less have it in their libraries. 
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Author: clarinetwife
Date: 2003-12-11 03:39
The cat going up the tree in Peter in the Wolf put butterflies in my stomach every time, actually, but it was a part that I had always wanted to play.
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2003-12-11 03:51
Can you believe I have a narrated record of peter and the wolf, but I've never actually listened to it. I've had it as long as I can remember (in excess of 16 years) but have never sat down to listen to it. I really ought to one of these days.
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: clarinetmajr
Date: 2003-12-11 04:26
Hey Lisa, I happen to have the first clarinet part to the PMEA March in my library. How? At the end of the regions concert we were all supposed to leave our music onstage to be collected, but I could not part with the march so I took it with me. I keep it in the back of my double case, along with my medals and a few photos, for good lucks sake and for my own amusement I suppose. I have very good memories from those festivals! ( :
I think the piece I would love to play would be Pictures at an Exhibition... with an orchestra. Sounds like a lot of fun woodwind parts... ballet of the unhatched chics!
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-12-11 04:27
I always wanted to play Mozart's Jupiter symphony and just never did, I'll just have to get an orchestra together and conduct it myself. Plus, never played the rest of Ma Vlast (Vltava - the Germans call it Moldau) - there is a wonderful clarinet solo in Sarka describing the warrior woman bitching about men, the poem ends up with the warrior women getting the men drunk (including farts and snores from the bassoon) and then hurtling themselves at them and murdering them ... a wholly satisfying piece from many angles.
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Author: LeWhite
Date: 2003-12-11 12:06
I had to play the Cat part for part of my assessment this year - PHEW what a tough one! In the practise room, you have only to increase the speed daily to get it working, but getting it right under pressure in front of examiners is another factor to be much feared...
Which part does everyone (who's played it) prefer - the Bb or the A? I prefer the Bb, it just sits under my fingers somehow.
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2003-12-11 14:49
As a bass clarinet specialist, I've got a few orchestral works I'd love to do:
Joseph Suk's "Asrael" Symphony (awesome bass clarinet part!)
Rachmaninoff's 2nd and 3rd symphonies
Prokofiev's 6th Symphony
Shostakovich's 6th and 8th symphonies
Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony
Richard Strauss' "Don Quixote" tone poem
Casella's "Paganiniana" suite
I'm sure there are some I've forgotten. Chamber music-wise, I'd love to do Janacek's "Mladi" (Youth) suite for wind quintet + bass clarinet. Concert band-wise, I think I've done most of the good pieces already.
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Author: ken
Date: 2003-12-11 16:21
Mahler's 10th with an orchestra conductor that has enough guts and integrity to STOP in the work where the master did and not play out any understudys' scribble. v/r Ken
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Author: lyn
Date: 2003-12-18 10:42
Suk & Dvorak always did know how to write for clarinet.....
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Author: coasten1
Date: 2003-12-18 20:22
((Can you believe I have a narrated record of peter and the wolf, but I've never actually listened to it. I've had it as long as I can remember (in excess of 16 years) but have never sat down to listen to it. I really ought to one of these days.))
The community band I play with just performed this back in October. The mayor of our town did the narration. It was a fun piece.
Even though it is not a clarinet piece, I've always wanted to be part of the performance of the March (Theme) from Superman and the Cowboys by John Williams. Seems like such a fun piece.
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