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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2006-05-26 16:46
Our summer band is looking for a piece to feature the clarinet section and "Clarinet Candy" by Leroy Anderson has surfaced as one of the possibilities. Can anyone who has played it tell me how many solo parts it has (particularly in the Hal Leonard edition)? The Hal Leonard site only says that it requires a "mature clarinet section." Someone who put a review on the Sheetmusicplus site says it is a work for 2 clarinets and band and Mark Charette has also identified it as such in an earlier thread that I found in a search of this board. However, in a different thread, John Moses says it's for 3 clarinets and, finally, on the recording I have of the orchestral version as performed by the St. Louis Symphony, the liner notes identify 4 soloists.
Best regards,
jnk
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2006-05-26 19:01
Thanks for the link, Mark. However, that is the orchestra version. I apologize. I guess I wasn't clear enough in my original message. I'm looking for the number of "soloists" in the band version. Based on the contradictory information I've seen in the past, it's not clear to me that it is the same as in the orchestra version.
Best regards,
jnk
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Author: Merlin
Date: 2006-05-26 19:09
There are 3 clarinet parts in the band version. All of them classify as solo parts. The band version is meant to be played by the entire section.
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2006-05-26 20:40
"John Moses says it's for 3 clarinets."
I have performed "Clarinet Candy" with Skitch Henderson and the NY Pops many times. We used the original Leroy Anderson Orchestral parts, not a Band transcription. Perhaps that's the confusion? I can assure you the "standard" Leroy Anderson orchestral charts are for 3 SOLO CLARINETS...!
JJM
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Author: genekeyes ★2017
Date: 2006-05-27 03:16
Hi John
The original Clarinet Candy was on a 1962 Leroy Andersen recording. There were 4 solo clarinets....Herb Blayman, JImmy Abato, Roger Hiller and Bernie Portnoy.
I may even have a copy of it somewhere that Herb had given to me years ago.
gk
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2006-05-27 05:09
Hi Gene:
It's been a long time since "FIDDLER"...
The "standard" arrangement done by Skitch Henderson's neighbor, and close friend, Leroy Anderson, is for THREE (3) solo Clarinets and Orchestra.
Dig up that 1962 recording you've mentioned...I'd be very interested in hearing four old friends of mine playing together. I wish I had been there when those guys decided who was to play "lead"...!
For everyone's information:
Gene Keyes was the wonderful first clarinetist to play FIDDLER, and his "Wedding Dance" Klezmer solo, and many others, are Classics in our Broadway literature.
BTW: Leroy Anderson passed away in 1975, and we were sad to lose Skitch Henderson in 2005. They were a great team, and loved making music together, in addition to being close neighbors in CT.
JJM
Légère Artist
Clark W. Fobes Artist
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2006-05-27 05:56
John,
The clarinetists on the St. Louis Symphony recording are George Silfies, Bob Coleman, Tina Ward and Jim Meyer. I'm guessing at least some of them were with the symphony when you were. Am I right?
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jnk
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2006-05-27 16:35
Yes, Jack, you are right.
I was there right before Silfies got the job. Jim Meyer played Bass Clarinet, great guy...great player. Bob Coleman played 2nd Clarinet, and Mel Warner played asst. first and Eb Clarinet. I moved on to a gig in San Francisco, a far cry from St. Louis.
When I joined the St. Louis Symphony there were 2 Union Musician's Locals, one for Whites and one for Blacks. I went there to join up with my good friend Darwin Apple, a great Violinist. He was made to join the Black Local, and I was told to join the White one...we were both enraged by that town's racists policies. We both left by the early 1970s.
Just a little history about why we often see Locals with two numbers:
Atlanta Local 148-462
Baltimore 40-542
Dallas 72-147
Houston 65-699
St. Louis 2-197
Etc.
JJM
Légère Artist
Clark W. Fobes Artist
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2006-05-28 03:24
That's great for Darwyn, times have changed in St. Louis, and that's good. Give him my fondest regards.
Now our Union is open to all who seek membership, and a strong unified Union can help us all.
JJM
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Clark W. Fobes Artist
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Author: genekeyes ★2017
Date: 2006-05-28 04:34
Hi John,
Thanx for the nice plug. Herb' daughter sent me a copy of the recording after he passed away. There's also some info on the website of the fellow that bought out the stand and mouthpiece business....as well as a a link to the track right on his sight but I haven't been able to open it. There's also a link to the Leroy Anderson website that has the same recording.
gene
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2006-05-28 15:23
Hey Gene you're the best!
Blayman's stands and more of his stuff is being manufactured by a friend of his who bought the business before Herb passed away. His name is Randy Beecham.
All the stands and stuff can be found at:
http://www.blaymanmusic.com/welcome.html
Randy Beecham, the new owner, is a good guy. We've had some good talks, and he even made a "Blayman-type" Soprano Sax peg for me on special order. Check it out.
BTW: Your links are not coming through...?
JJM
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Clark W. Fobes Artist
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Author: Susan Eileen
Date: 2006-05-29 21:56
Jack
Our large (70+ members) community band performed the Clarinet Candy a year ago. We used the entire clarinet section on the three parts. Some members "kind of hung in there" while others played all the notes. For me the music rolled off the fingers. Nothing diffiuclt but some counting traps for those who guess rather than count.
Good luck -- we had fun with it.
Susan
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