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Weber 2 Mvt 1: Boring?

Author: Ralph G
Date: 2004-06-07 13:28

I believe I've mentioned here before how I've been tapped to play the first movement of Weber 2 with my chamber orchestra next spring. I think it's a decent solo choice -- relatively brief, somewhat easy for an amateur orchestra, it can stand alone as a complete-sounding composition, and it's a pretty decent technical piece requiring sound fundamentals.

Two colleagues in the local clarinet "clique" (one the clarinet prof at our local university) just went "ewww" when I told them what I was playing. They seem to regard the first movement as some torture you have to endure to get to the Polacca. Meanwhile, some other folks I know who aren't clarinet geeks but are familiar with the piece like it.

So is this too pedestrian a piece or something? What gives? Is this like going to Carnegie Hall and playing "Heart and Soul?"

Just wondering why I'm getting the ol' lemonface whenever I mention this to other clarinetists.e

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