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Re: First Pit Playing Experience

Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2008-11-08 01:43

E or F above the staff (i.e., in the leger lines). What we did for that one number was to play the bass part on the soprano by reading the part at pitch but an octave lower (on the one high part, the "Spanish Panic". It came out a lot smoother and the tone color didn't really matter.

The soprano clarinet part is actually written an octave lower than the bass in "Spanish Panic". Weird to the extreme.

The woman who wrote the show (according to my at the time ancient piano player, who tutored her in music theory) did not have a firm grasp on orchestration at the time. He added that she wrote the show as part of her college course work. That would account for a lot.

I played two productions of this in less than one calendar year. Not one of my favorite shows. In fact, I'd rather do Carousel again than play Once Upon A Mattress.

leader of Houston's Sounds Of The South Dance Orchestra
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