| re: What are the most difficult shows for pit musicians? | |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 06:09 pm EDT 07/22/22 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 06:07 pm EDT 07/22/22 | |
| In reply to: re: What are the most difficult shows for pit musicians? - Charlie_Baker 02:42 pm EDT 07/22/22 | |
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| The story goes that musicians, potentially hired for the original Sunday In The Park pit, were coming in to look at the parts and subsequently turning down the show. I found Sondheim On Sondheim (all new orchestrations of the songs by Michael Starobin) to be a difficult pit show all around. Some contemporary composers like LaChiusa, Lippa, JRB, and Guettel have scores that are very complex to play. There was recently a facebook discussion that touched on the extremely beautiful but very complicated orchestrations for The Light In The Piazza, to which I quipped that the pit parts are in no way a passeggiata in the park lol. Some shows may not be incredibly difficult on the whole, but have some notoriously tough parts - anyone who's done the very intense Keyboard II book for Bat Boy will surely tell you that, lol. (I've played both books - once you've played the K2 book, the K1 book all of a sudden seems VERY easy lol.) I don't know what the band parts in general in either version of Songs from A New World are like in terms of difficulty, but you gotta really really really be on your game to do that piano book justice. Even though it's only piano and bass (so it may not really "count" in this discussion?), I find that Closer Than Ever's piano part is really very very tricky. (While Shire's other shows are comparatively much easier - even with the occasional bear like "A New Life Coming" from Starting Here Starting Now - a song that's really fun to play but has some very tricky "licks," needing a piano with impeccable action lol.) |
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