Klarinet Archive - Posting 000844.txt from 1998/04

From: "L. BORCHERT" <lborcher@-----.Edu>
Subj: Other winds and clarinet
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:16:27 -0400

I originally went to Chicago one summer to study with this clarinet player
who I had seen featured in the Chicago Magazine. There was a picture of
him playing saxophone in a jazz group called Ears with a french horn
player (Dale Clevenger from the CSO) playing at a club named Orphans.
This person, as I was later to find out, had recently been appointed
Associate Principal (I believe that was his first title) and Eb with the
CSO. We now know him as the Principal Clarinetist of the orchestra, Larry
Combs. The reason I went to study with him was not just because his
reputation as a clarinetist (he had just gotten the job moving from
Montreal) but because he did both clarinet and saxophone and was
successful at both.
I did go hear him play at the club a couple of times and he did
very well, much better than Clevenger, but then, again, I may be
prejudiced in favor of the woodwind player. Did any of you hear his jazz
clarinet skills at the clarinet convention in Chicago a few years back?

Laroy

Dr. Laroy Borchert
NMSU

> C E Field wrote:
> > Which brings up another question: I wonder if clarinet superstars such as
> > [fill in your favorite performer] play(ed) other wind instruments...?
>
> Eddie Daniels for sure.
>
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