Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2010-11-06 19:54
Well we rehearsed Beethoven's 3rd today, the Mahler arrangement, very strange. It is copyrighted 2010 so we may be the first, and hopefully the last, to perform it. We were told that Mahler admired Beethoven a great deal, more than any other past composer but he felt his orchestra music needed to be "updated" for the modern orchestra, so hence woodwind doubling and Eb clarinet, very strange. The music is basically the same with a good many "comas" to put short breaks in some phrases, an additional tutti passage near the end and we do "bells up" in Beethoven. That way we can not only play loud but unfocused and maybe even out of tune too but that's a topic that's already been argued over on this board. The strange thing about how he doubles is that we often do not play a great many f, ff or even fff passages. The whole orchestra is blasting away, including the Eb clarinet in my right ear, and the doubler's are just sitting there doing nothing. He's very selective with where and what we double and there's not a heck of a lot that we do double. The Eb is often playing with the high strings or flute in the loud passages, no solos, while we just sit there counting our parts. Some times he even has only the first or only the second double a few measures. The whole thing is very strange. If he admired Beethoven so much he should have just left his music alone, it works pretty well I think. Anyway, we play it next week twice in Baltimore and then go the NY and play it at Carnagie Hall on the 13th. At least we are also doing the Barber 2nd Essay so I have a nice Bass clarinet solo in the beginning of it. Anyone coming to the concert in NY, stop by outside after the concert and say hello. ESP
ESP eddiesclarinet.com
Post Edited (2010-11-06 19:55)
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