Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2007-03-17 01:31
OK, now I've really done it.
You might remember that, last January, I got an English Horn. And that, prior to taking up the oboe, I had played clarinet for, oh, 47 years.
So, it has come to pass that I have been contracted to play for not one, but two (and turned down a third) musicals on the oboe/e.h. book. Actually, one of them ("Romance Romance") is a Reed 3 book, which requires ob/eh/cl/tenor/flute. The director of that one knows I don't have a sax. And I don't have a flute, either, but could play it if someone put one in my hands. He says he's expecting me to handle ob/eh/cl only.
So, when one is doubling, how does this work?
For example, I have the score for "Oliver," and it's not too difficult (except for the E.H. passages with the D-flats). But how in the world do you keep your reeds wet on one instrument while you are playing the other(s)? Some of these are really quick switches -- not enough time to, say, take off the reed and stick it in the water cup, and put a reed on the next instrument.
In one spot, there is the notation "change to oboe", but the score then continues for two staves on what is clearly still an E.H. part, followed one beat later by an oboe solo. Do I just STOP the horn and pick up the oboe where it says "change to oboe", and let the rest of the E.H. part go, or what? There is obviously not enough time for a change at the end of the passage.
And how do you arrange your instruments so that you don't knock one over, getting to the next one? I've already ruined a reed reaching across the oboe to grab the E.H. while practicing at home.
I don't want to embarrass myself when we go into rehearsal on Monday -- although that may be inevitable.
Susan
Post Edited (2007-03-17 01:34)
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