What is the best song used in football coverage on TV? You know the tune they play a large clip of at the beginning of the programme then some bits from at the beginning and end of every ad break. I've probably missed out a few!
Me too None shall sleep from the great opera Turandot. A very difficult overture to play though, I seem to remember the clarinet part having a key of C flat major 7 flats! If 1990 did little else (worst final ever) it introduced a lot of people to the magic of Puccini.
Wasn't a bad WC until the semis with England and Italy going out at that stage!!! What a team England had then!! Barnes, Lineker, Seaman, Beardsley, Platt and of course Gascoigne!! And the team got better as the tournament progressed. All world-class players. If only we had players of that calibre going to Brazil now!!!
The 1994 final was equally as bad!!!! Has there really been a good one since '86!! But the stand out one has to be 1970 and to a lesser extent 74.
Hang on a moment. B flat clarinets will have two fewer flats than the un transposed piece. Is that possible? The clarinet in C flat major indicates concert pitch key signature of of A (effectively). I think I would have rewritten the part out in the sharp key, no wait...... I would have grabbed my clarinet in A, the slightly longer one- piece of cake, then
We didn't have an A in Military band, Bflat and Eflat only and the latter only got dragged out for "In a Monastery Garden". I'm sure it was Overture to Turandot but of course you are right, I read it as C flat major because I only played Bflat Clarinet all the time and got so used to it, to the point of not realising I was not playing in the same key as all the other instruments. I used to play the Viola too when I was younger, so I used to hate transposing as high Viola parts (as you may know) break back from Alto clef to Treble. I never did get the hang of that and only got through by learning by heart. If I had to sight read and the clef changed I was knackered! Now I remember it better, we only got as far as rehearsing Turandot's overture as the CSM who was "just passing", (even though we were miles from anywhere) the band block and dropped in for a quick pint, heard us playing it and said "What the f**k was that!". We then played him "Mexicana Mambo" which was easy, tune-a-day stuff, to which he ruminated after hearing it, that "The C**t must have written that in his NAAFI break!!" So we packed up for the day and opened the Bar. Happy days.
