Look at Barber's "Adagio for Strings." Try to work the page turns so that one player is available for the turn. This is often difficult to manage but can be done.
In well-copied Broadway show books, the copyist sometimes leaves a blank page or has only a few staves on a page in order to make the page turns good. In poorly-copied books the problem is completely ignored. The assumption is always that strings will have stand partners who can turn, but that definitely isn't the case in a Broadway pit. Counting divisi, "King & I" has 5 separate violin parts, and in the original production there were exactly 5 violinists in the pit! Violin C had no stand partner.
I have an original edition set of parts for David Rose's "Holiday for Strings" that has separate Violin A, B , C and D parts. In the event of an absence we have to find another part. It would be much easier if A and B, C and D were on the same page. That is the general way B'dway books come. There may be many exceptions but I haven't seen them. If the show has three Violin parts then usualy A and B are in the same book and C is separate.
Interesting. Every show we've done has had separate books for Violin A and B, and a third book for Violin C if there is one. I'd think the choice would be based on the amount of unison in a particular orchestration.
I'd love to borrown the David Rose parts if it can be played by string orchestra. It's gone rental-only, I think.
John
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