Los Angeles Clarinet Choir plays Bartok
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Love it!
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@Arundo76 really? can you not HEAR it being played?
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I'm in Band!!!!
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I'm in Band
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Screw the many commenting snobs. This is a wonderful ensemble! Where is your ensemble? A clarinet choir of any size or composition is a splendid thing. Hats off to Ms. Thornhill who has the courage to put themselves out there to suffer the slings and arrows of misguided armchair conductors whos cheif talent is bringing their cheap chardonays to their quivering lips. Bravo, brava, to this presentation.
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Fantastic choice, EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE! Thank you for filming and posting this! It's great for life
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Losta replying going on. o.o
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The literature for clarinet choir has a "standard"instrumentation which generally consists of a minimum of eleven players: E-flat sopranino, B-flat clarinet 1,2,3, alto, one or two basses (this group has two) and one or two contras (this group has one.) In this arrangement,as in all the Piet Jeegers arrangements, the soprano parts are divisi, which means at least two on a part,Some groups have a h a lot more basses than two but that is rare (eg, the British Clarinet Ensemble.)
Missing bass and contra? What are those people doing in the back row?
Arundo76 3 years ago 4
The biggest challenge facing a clarinet quintet is diversity of pitch (in my opinion). Even if you have one bass clarinetist, you have six Bb'ers. I love the clarinet, but I can't see a musical point to having more than three Bb clarinets with an alto and a bass. Any more Bbs and you just increase the noise of the Bbs and rid the strength of the bass.
So while they have a bass clarinetist, the sound is muffled from the other clarinets.
jlyons1026 3 years ago 3