[Trombone-l] And---Re: Mahler 5 revisions

[Roger Hecht]

Whoops. I was forwarding this to someone who would be interested in 
the topic and hit "reply" instead of putting his name in. Sorry.


>At 04:36 AM 4/12/2006, Howard Weiner wrote:
> >At 00:10 12.04.06 -0500, David Johansen wrote:
> > >List,
> > >
> > >The Baton Rouge Symphony is teaming up with the remaining member of the
> > >Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra for a performance of Mahler's 5th
> > >Symphony on Wednesday night.  The trombonists from the LPO have certain
> > >measures in their parts deleted based on some kind of a study of
> > >Mahler's original score that doesn't include these parts.  Whenever I've
> > >had the opportunity to perform this piece, I've never run into anything
> > >like this.  Does anyone out there know anything about these deletions
> > >and how the inclusions came to appear in the parts?  Their parts appear
> > >to be from the same publisher as ours and their deletions are simply
> > >penciled out.
> >
> >Mahler was constantly making revisions to the 5th Symphony, the last
> >just a few months before his death. By that time there were
> >apparently three published versions. Unfortunately, you don't really
> >supply enough information to allow even an educated guess as to the
> >source of the changes in the LPO parts -- and it really is a bit late
> >now for a performance this evening. Nevertheless, if you're really
> >interested, the best bet would be to copy your part (and maybe a
> >couple others for good measure) and go to the nearest library that
> >has the Mahler "Complete Edition" and compare the parts with the
> >score. The "Complete Edition" contains Mahler's finale version of the
> >5th, which was published there for the first time.
> >
> >Have a good concert tonight!
> >Howard
> >
> >
> >
> >--
> >Howard Weiner
> >weiner at privat.toplink.de
> >http://www.harpa.com/howard-weiner/
> >
> >If vegetarians eat only vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?
> >
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Roger Hecht