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Re: Broadway musicians

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2010-06-15 11:52

>>It's amazing that revivals on Broadway that formerly had a book of 15 to 24 are now paired down to a typical 8 if that.
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I understand ballet companies are doing the same thing and also playing to recorded music instead of using a pit orchestra. I wonder what they do when they program Stravinsky's "L'Oiseau de Feu," which calls for quadruple woodwinds, three harps and a symphony-sized string section. A couple of days ago, I watched the excellent DVD of the Mariinsky Theatre's performance in St. Petersburg (Ekaterina Kondaurova as the Firebird, in a 2008 DVD release that also includes "The Rite of Spring," on Bel Air Classiques BAC 041). That orchestra, conducted by Valery Gergiev, sat so jam-packed into the traditional below-stage pit that the string players barely had room to bow. Bravo to the Mariinsky for using the full score. I'll bet it's a rarity now.

Lelia
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