Klarinet Archive - Posting 000066.txt from 2001/03

From: "Benjamin Maas" <benmaas@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Osvaldo Golijov
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 23:03:41 -0500

Hope you're sitting Dan because I have some news that you'll love...
Golijov is going to be doing an artist residency with the LA Philharmonic
Next season (2001-2002). I just got announced a couple weeks ago. The
performances will include several orchestral works (I believe one is a
premiere) and a chamber music concert of his music. The center-piece of the
chamber show: Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind.

Keep an eye out for this one... It may be your only chance to see this
music performed live.

The press release is at:
http://www.laphil.org/press/press_detail.cfm?id=441&back=%2Findex%2Ecfm

-Ben

Benjamin Maas
Freelance Clarinetist and Recording Engineer
Los Angeles, CA
benmaas@-----.com
http://www.fifthcircle.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Leeson [mailto:leeson0@-----.net]
>
> 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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