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Milhaud Suite Francaise technical question

Author: cfarrell
Date: 2017-05-04 10:47

Question for those of you familiar with this piece:

There is one bar of crazy clarinet articulation in the Ile de France movement - if you've played it you know

It's measure 49 & 50, basically several beats of sixteenths articulated at half = 88 (our director takes stuff fast, so he says he's targeting half = 112, but let's say for the sake of the argument that we're looking at a sane tempo used by professional bands like half = 88).

We're an amateur band with a large-ish clarinet section so this just sounds like a mess. Do people have suggesions for what kind of trade-offs might make sense? Having the clarinets lay out while the flutes tackle it with double-tounging doesn't seem to be the answer; losing the clarinet timbre is not great (not to mention it's still hard for the flutes so it's unlikely to be that clean anyway). Just have the couple best players in each section muddle through? This seems like it would be better, but it's still just not playable by amateurs at this speed (in fact, I have professional recordings where this measure is a bit of a mess). Maybe divisi articulation, with everyone doing slur two, tounge two in alternating locations? This seems more promising to me.

Anyway, I'm curious if anyone has suggestions.

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