Klarinet Archive - Posting 000612.txt from 1998/12

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Stoltzman and a new work
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 18:16:41 -0500

Today's New York Times (West Coast Edition) reported Richard Stoltzman's
first performance of a clarinet concerto by Carter Penn, doctoral
candidate at the Univ. of Michigan. The work is entitled "Rags to
Richard" and consists of a pair of dance movements based on ragtime,
the first a slow drag, the second a two step, said by the reviewer
to be full of the kind of virtuosic writing that Stoltzman revels in.
(Those are the reviewer's words, not mine.)

Both the work and the performer got excellent reviews by NY Times
reviewer Anthony Tommasini. Stoltzman also played the Prokofiev
flute sonata in D in stranscription for clarinet and orchestra
by Kent Kennan.

While I am mentioning Stoltzman, let me share with you how he learns
a work: he copies out the clarinet part by hand, and he may also
copy out the entire orchestral part too. It's a good idea. You
certainly much touch every note when you do that. I only found that
out when we were on a flight together and I asked him what he was
doing.

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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