have a piece - pairs of regular winds plus bass clarinet, f horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, strings, and solo viola.
up until about bar 189, string section has been in arco. then, a much faster passage for about 80 bars with section strings in pizzicato. in the middle of the passage, a bar rest and first have a bar of arco, the a rest bar, and back to pizzicato. same for seconds, section viols, and cellos. the section violas will NOT change to arco for their bar - no matter what i do - erased the bar and put back in, moved arco around. finally i had to give the viola arco passage to the cello as well and let it do some pizz notes.
any ideas on this - has it happened to anyone, where instument will not play arco, no matter what? later, after the fast pizz passage, it went back to arco with no problem.
thanks so much for all opinions and ideas
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