Klarinet Archive - Posting 000238.txt from 1999/10

From: Anne Bell <bell@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Orchestral karaoke (was: [kl] Vienna Philharmonic at
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 07:09:31 -0400

You might be surprised what he can do live! He's certainly given me a different perspective on Bass Clarinet- If anyone has the opportunity I would recommend seeing him. He's fully capable of playing the standard repertoire but modern music is his forte. Among other things I believe he plays bars, etc. in ?Rochester.
Anne

At 10:32 AM 10/8/99 EDT, you wrote:
I don't have any problem
>with bass clarinetist and recording engineer Michael Lowenstern's heavy
>engineering of "Spasm" (New World Records 80468-2), for instance, because all
>the music on that CD is contemporary (Lowenstern based one of his own
>compositions so loosely on Gershwin's "Summertime" that it's stretching
>things to call it an arrangement -- it's more of a variation on a theme by
>Gershwin) and scored for electronic manipulation in such a way that some of
>it probably couldn't be performed live. Instruments seem to drift around the
>room from that CD, too, but the effect seems appropriate in what the liner
>notes call "post-modernist" music.
>

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Anne Bell bell@-----.net
Bayside HS Orchestra Director
ABC Index: http://www.sneezy.org/anne_bell/ MUSIC LINKS!
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