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Re: Strauss Alpine Symphony

Author: VermontJM
Date: 2005-01-12 10:51

That Eb part is a BEAST!!!

We did a reading here a few months ago - To accomodate all of the people who wanted to play, the conductor allowed doubling on parts- 2 first, 2 second, 2 Ebs. We also had a seperate C player. Well... no bass and no firsts showed up, so I chose to not play the Eb part and played first instead and one of the seconds played the Bass line on Bb when they could (just to try to cover the part.)

Needless to say... TWO Ebs and a C would have been OVERKILL bigtime. As it was, I am pretty sure I have permanent hearing loss from the altissimo notes the Eb and C played in unison throughout the piece. I think Strauss just wanted to be able to say that he used all the clarinets... I am surprised there's no Ab sopranino part for the piece!

I couldn't believe just how high these parts went and the doubling (tripling... quadrupling...) that went on with those ridiculously high notes. I did a double-take when I saw a crazy high Bb show up in the first part. I don't even remember the fingering because I never have to play it!!

Good luck! It was a fun piece to read through. I wish we could have actually worked it.

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