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nonstandardrepertoire · 8 months ago

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i am listening to a new arrangement of The Rite of Spring for wind band and it's hard b/c on the one hand i'm not sure i love this arrangement but on the other i also really don't like the interpretation, and it's a little hard for me to figure out whether i would think the arrangement better if it were conducted more to my taste

#mostly i think it wouldn't because the band is too small #i actually really do think that part of the ~sound~ of TRoS is the sheer *size* of the orchestra #two contrabassoons babey!!!#and that's just! woven into it i think in a way that makes it part of the piece #which is not to say a chamber arrangement can't be successful!#there are some BANGER reductions out there #but if that's what you're doing you actually have to *do* it #it's gotta be a *choice*#this arrangement feels like it wants to be “the original just rewritten for wind band”#and i think that fundamentally requires size #there is only one basoon!!!!#how can you look at this piece and think that is enough bassoon????#incomprehensible #anyway #i do actually think the Rite is one of those pieces that is a wind band piece avant la lettre #and we should just take and make ours #even if the ending is bad and doesn't work #it's fine it was 1913 Stravinskii only sort of knew what he was doing #and endings are really hard #especially in a piece like this #The Rite of Spring #BOPS JAMS AND BANGERS #attn #sigmastolen

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