Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2016-06-20 19:16
I'm assuming you're referring to several tutti passages. Take it from a professional, there are times you just have to fake. Leave out some notes, play four of a six not run, etc. Sure, it's embarrasing if the conductor says, clarinets alone, so you have to hope they don't. You're a student playing an extremely difficult professional caliber piece. Just make sure you keep the beats in the right place so you don't fall behind.
I played a contempory piece several years ago written by a local composer and there was a page of 16th notes that skipped in large internals all over the place at a mm marking of 160. After working on it for days on end, I always tried to play my part, I looked at the score and realized it was a massive tutti passage so I practiced it leaving out as many notes as possible to keep up with the beat. At the first rehearsal, the composer was present, the wind section was all over the place and the first flute player said the parts are impossible at this tempo. When the conductor asked the composer a question about it he said, it's just for effect, just do what ever they can. I felt better. Later I said something to the composer, he taught at Peabody where I was teaching, I said, why didn't you just write this is for effect in our parts. :-)
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