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Author: Katfish
Date: 2004-02-19 19:27
I have been ask to play a clarinet solo in my step daughter's wedding. I would welcome suggestions for a piece. I don't want to play Carpenters' cheese or Taco Bell's Cannon. Thank You.
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2004-02-19 19:50
Get another player and harmonize on the promenade of "Pictures at an Exhibition." Makes a great substitute to the old Here Comes the Bride.
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Author: John Scorgie
Date: 2004-02-19 20:37
One of the wedding standards these days is the Kenny G Wedding Song, which I do on soprano sax but also works effectively on a clarinet.
Another one which seems to be played at weddings, funerals and everything in between is called, I believe, "On Angel's Wings".
IMHO, neither of these pieces are great music, but you would be surprised how many of the younger people love them.
For a more traditional classical piece, for, say, the processional, the Schubert Ave Maria works great. It was written in B flat which puts you in C on the clarinet. Very effective because it is one of those great "serious" tunes which most everyone can connect with.
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Author: Bob Schwab
Date: 2004-02-19 21:35
Ralph
Somehow your suggestion brought back visions of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. They did a really cool version of Pictures of an Exhibition, replete with cannons ala 1812 Overture.
Bob Schwab
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Author: Ed
Date: 2004-02-19 22:19
I have played the Baermann Adagio to great success.
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Author: JessKateDD
Date: 2004-02-19 22:26
"Ave Maria" is a great suggestion. I once played the vocal line from another Schubert song - "Du bist die Ruh". It went over quite well.
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Author: ksclarinetgirl
Date: 2004-02-20 00:12
I've heard of people using the second movement of the Mozart Concerto. When exactly are you playing it in the wedding?
Stephanie :o)
"Vita Brevis, Ars Longa"
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Author: Jim E.
Date: 2004-02-20 04:14
"One Hand, One Heart" from West Side Story
This IS the "wedding" song from the show, has a sweet melody (especially for Bernstein!) and is not done that often. We had it sung at our wedding.
Also, "Sabath Prayer" from Fiddler on the Roof. (I'd suggest "Sunrise Sunset," but that's as overdone as the Carpenters Canon.)
My wife went down the aisle to the Wedding March from Sound of Music. In the show the piece modulates into the song "Maria" but there is an optional cut on the organ sheet music that avoids that.
The Schubert "Ave Maria" is indeed a favorite, but keep in mind that it is rather associated with Roman Catholicism in case that's not desired. (The setting is of a text most Protestants don't use.)
Another favorite is the Mallotte "Our Father."
There was an inquiry here a few months ago about "Morning Has Broken" as sung by Cat Stevens 30+ years ago by someone who was asked to play it at a funeral. This is a published hymn and another beautiful melody.
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Author: hans
Date: 2004-02-20 13:24
I don't remember it well (except that I liked it) but didn't Andy Williams have a Hawaiian Wedding Song that he used to sing?
Hans
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2004-02-20 13:58
Bob,
I remember that EL&P arrangment, as well as their Fanfare for the Common Man. A bit too progressive for my taste, but definitely memorable.
Consider me one of the few 80s relics who still thinks Asia was a good group, 22 years after they formed. Carl Palmer was fabulous, and Greg Lake did a nice fill-in when John Wetton left the group.
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Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2004-02-20 14:19
When she was 14, my wife picked out her wedding march: Sweelinck's stately Ballo del Granduca. It worked beautifully, even though we got married in a living room and our processional was only about 15' long.
For a solo, my favorite church piece is the Pie Jesu from the Faure Requiem. (You don't have to tell anyone what the text means or what it's from.) The only problem is that it's so gorgeous that everything else sounds pale by comparison.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: supernova_khr
Date: 2004-02-20 15:21
I played a contempory version of The Lord's Prayer for a wedding at one time. I took the piano music, and rearranged it for clarinet and flute. It was about a 3 minute piece that came after the vows were said.
Kay
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Author: Rev. Avery
Date: 2004-02-20 15:43
Kay, would it be possible to get a copy of that from you? I may be playing in my son's wedding in May. My middle son will be playing guitar on Pachabel (spelling?); but, maybe your song would work?
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