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Author: clarinet713
Date: 2002-06-05 00:45
Has anyone heard of this or ever done it? Thanks
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2002-06-05 13:34
CL 713, It sounds as if you are inquiring about a piece of music??? There is the Roman Carnival Overture [Rossini?] and the Pines of Rome [Respeghi {sp?}], and prob. others with Rome in the title. Give us some clarification, please. Don
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2002-06-05 14:13
Respighi wrote a trilogy of descriptive suites about Rome - The Pines of Rome, The Fountains of Rome and Roman Festivals. The first two are famous, but Roman Festivals is not, mostly because it's not nearly as good as Pines and Fountains. Nevertheless, it's worth doing once in a while. A good recording is the old one with Ormandy and Philadelphia, available with Pines and Fountains on an inexpensive Sony CD.
It's very long, very bombastic and VERY loud. Bring earplugs, especially if you're sitting in front of the brass or percussion.
Greg Smith - how do you cope when one of these monsters gets programmed?
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-06-05 14:39
In addition to Ken's fine description of the trilogy, there is a gorgeous A clarinet solo in the third movement (I pini del Gianicolo) of The Pines of Rome...GBK
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Author: Gregory Smith
Date: 2002-06-05 14:40
Didn't hear what you said Ken. Can you speak up?
Two methods. Index finger to the ear or short spans of time with earplugs. Many in the orchestra use earplugs all of the time - including string players sitting many yards away. And there are some in the WW section that keep them in full time depending on the piece.
Actually since Orchestra Hall Chicago has been renovated, the stage remodeled, and we have a music director who has repositioned just about every section in the orchestra (compared to the traditional set up that Solti preferred), the brass are off to our left and we're out of the direct line of fire. The percussion are the problem now - especially the tymp. The 8 weeks at our summer home - Ravinia - is the same old problem though. Many times in the old configuration the clarinet section has the trumpets and tymp. literally playing 3 feet in back of our eardrums. Sometimes one just has to duck.
Gregory Smith
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Author: clarinet713
Date: 2002-06-05 14:43
Oh no I'm sorry I wasn't clear-----The Rome Festival is a summer music Festival in Rome and I was wondering if anyone had gone through the process of auditioning and raising the support. Sorry again for being unclear but thanks for the other info as well. I love that solo in the third movement of The Pines of Rome-not easy to play but so beautiful!
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Author: William
Date: 2002-06-05 14:47
Our university concert band played (and recorded) Roman Festivals during our 1964 state high school band tour and annual Palm Sunday Concert. We performed from the hand-written manuscript of an graduate arranging student which, of course, was never published. As far as I know, it is still filed away somewhere in the universities archives of student projects. And, I do not know of any similar published transcription for wind ensemble. Might be a good idea for some enterprizing arranger out there who has time in their schedule--it is an amazing piece of music for a band to play. I remember that we had fun and everyone who heard us seemed to enjoy. I think that other student arranging projects "back then" also included "The Pines" and "The Fountains" as well--all probably resting quitely in the musty archives of my old alma mater. Sorry, I could not be of more help--Good Clarineting!!!
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Author: forest@woodwind.org
Date: 2002-06-05 20:17
Try Wagner opera in the pit.....ouch.
Ear plugs in the ears for several hours.
Forest
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