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Author: Rissa
Date: 2000-12-30 21:08
As a reward for making my state's All-State band, my band director is letting me play something on our spring concert with band accompaniment (just something she's always done for All-State players).....but I have no clue what to play. The only thing we have in our extensive library is the Weber Concertino, but someone did that 2 years ago, and I don' want to play it because everyone is already comparing the 2 of us....I want something of my own!!! I get to spend as much of the school's money on it as I like, so that's not an issue. Our band is the typical wind ensemble, very good instrumentation, no strings of course, very competent, so that's not an issue either....I just don't know what to do! I'm also very up to the challenge for something technical, we do enough lyrical stuff already! Oh, and I don't need anything with just a solo first Clarinet part, we're doing 2 already (Pineapple Poll- now that's a scary peice!).....I just want something for Clarinet with Band accompaniment! HELP!!!! PLEEEEEEZE!
Thank ya, thank ya vury much
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Author: William
Date: 2000-12-30 23:51
Weber CONCERTO # 2
Shaw CLARINET CONCERTO (kind of jazzy, great audience appeal--rental parts available)
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Author: spencer
Date: 2000-12-31 02:38
at an honor band that i was in they always have a guest soloist. this year it was a clarinet player and she played two pieces. the weber concertino and a piece call clarinet escapade. she played the first part and every body else played second or third. it totally featured her and was very techinical. it isnt a particularly deep piece but it was very fun to listen to.
spencer
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Author: Allen Cole
Date: 2000-12-31 04:36
The last Movement of the Weber Quintet is published for band accompaniment. Quite a flashy piece. (I don't know the publisher)
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-12-31 04:41
You might want to contact Bob Spring (past-president@clarinet.org) and ask if you can get the band arrangement of the Poulenc Sonata. It was very effective at ClarinetFest a few years back.
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Author: Pam
Date: 2000-12-31 09:49
Both Weber Concerto #2 (Polacca movement) and Rossini's Introduction, Theme and Variations work well with band.
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Author: Robert Carrillo
Date: 2000-12-31 19:33
I actually heard Richard MacDowell play the Mozart Concerto with the University of Texas Wind Ensemble. I didn't really like the way it sounded (the band covered up the soloist), but it's something to think about. I don't really know about it's availability in terms of publication, though...
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Author: J. Exner
Date: 2000-12-31 23:08
I've played a movement of the Mozart Concerto with a band, and it was well-received, though pretty boring for the band parts. Another solo I've played is an old one, called "Clarinet on the Town." It has a slow, schmaltzy part sandwiched between fast and jazzier-sounding segments. It was fun for everybody.
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2001-01-02 23:38
Rissa -
First, congratulations on making all-state. Anyone who gets that honor deserves to play a solo with the band.
Pineapple Poll is no joke. If you're up to that, you can pretty much pick what you like.
I've played the Debussy Premere Rhapsody with band, and it works reasonably well, though it's full of subtle effects that are hard to pull off with just winds.
I'm sure the Mozart Concerto has been arranged for band accompaniment, but I wouldn't do it with band -- it just won't sound right.
Rimsky-Korsakoff wrote a short Concerto for Clarinet and Military Band. It's not his best piece, but it's written for the combination and is worth doing.
Carl Fischer publishes a bunch of finger-wiggler operatic theme-and-variations solos, and they almost certainly have band accompaniments available. I think the best of them is the Erwin Fantaisie by Meister -- for me, just as effective as the Rossini Theme and Variations (which you might also consider).
You might get in touch with the librarians at the various elite military bands to see what's available. Try the Army Band, the Army Field Band, the West Point Band, the Navy Band, the Air Force Band and the Marine Band. Also, try the libraries at, say Eastman, Indiana, Texas and other big music schools. Finaly, try the International Clarinet Association site, which has a huge catalog that's now mostly on line (right Mark?).
Your solo should be all fun. It's your reward. You play what makes you feel best.
Let us know what you decide.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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