On Dec 30, 2004, at 12:38 PM, Daniel Wolf wrote:
A related question, just out of curiosity (since I have nothing to do with popular music theatre): The Budapest Operetta regularly plays musicals, and plays them with an orchestra of 30 or more players, using sets of parts that are rented from abroad. I understand that the Broadway originals are played with much smaller ensembles, so are such larger orchestrations produced in parallel to the smaller originals, or are smaller originals written to be expanded as resources permit?
Daniel Wolf
Broadway orchestras in which I have played, or have conducted have had about 30 players. It is fairly safe to add more strings to existing orchestrations, but more complicated, problematic and usually unnecessary to double existing wind or percussion parts.
Chuck
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