Klarinet Archive - Posting 000043.txt from 2001/03

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Osvaldo Golijov
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 12:54:57 -0500

Talk about versatility!!

More than a year ago, I reported on a work for string quartet and
klezmer clarinet by the South American composer, Osvaldo Golijov,
entitled "The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind." I was very much
taken with the piece but complained that it was not going to get many
live performances both because of its insane klezmer style that David
Krakauer pulled off brilliantly but how many of us can do that? And
second, because the piece called for an entire movement containing some
very complex basset horn writing. Imagine that: klezmer for basset horn
and clarinet with string quartet!!

Well, in the Mar. 5 issue of The New Yorker (p. 100) is one of the most
sensational reviews of a work I ever read and guess who the composer is?
That's right, it's Golijov again, but this time he has written a setting
of the Passion of Jesus Christ according to St. Mark, a work performed
only the previous week by the Boston Symphony but also played earlier
(and to equally and insanely positive audience response) in Stuttgart as
part of a series of Passions commissioned by Helmuth Rilling of the Bach
Choir, along with other new Passions by Wolfgang Rihm, Tan Dun, and
Sofia Gubaidulina.

Now anyone who can write great klezmer music (even if I can't play it)
and then also get such reviews for a St. Mark's Passion is a person that
I would call versatile.

Quelle chutzpah!!
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