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Author: diz
Date: 2005-05-29 22:33
*sigh* - listened to the final Met broadcast last night (we get it about four weeks late, as listening live is not an open due to time differences). La Clemenza di Tito ... I must say the clarinet playing was incredible.
GBK do you know if the principal also plays the basset solos in this opera?
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-05-29 22:57
It's been a while since I've heard the Met perform La Clemenza di Tito, but if I remember correctly the basset clarinet solo was done by the principal clarinet (Morales, when I heard it), and the basset horn solo was played by the bass clarinetist (Jim Ognibene) ...GBK
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Author: donald
Date: 2005-05-30 20:20
when i saw this opera in Manneheim in 2002 a soloist was brought in to play these two solos onstage with the singers.... the orchestra players sat in the pit looking grumpy.
plus a lion pee-d on stage in the middle of an aria, did i mention that?
donald
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2005-05-30 21:07
So the Lion was the hit of the show?
Bet those players were looking really grumpy at that point huh..... 
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Author: diz
Date: 2005-05-31 03:32
Not surprising, their playing was just about perfect.
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2005-05-31 15:37
Sir Thomas Beecham said (when an elephant had an accident onstage and brought the performance to a halt):
"A distressing incident, ladies and gentlemen, but GAD, what a critic!"
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