Klarinet Archive - Posting 000786.txt from 2002/01

From: EClarinet@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Re: Corigliano this week
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:45:15 -0500

Rezzie said:

<< Just a note for anyone else in the N. Fla/S. Ga area - Charles Neidich will
be doing the Corigliano concerto with the Jacksonville Symphony this
Thursday and Friday. This should be a treat!!>>

He will play it with them in Daytona Beach on Saturday night, which is when I
and my students are going, since that's only 45 minutes from Orlando. We
were invited to attend a reception held for him after the concert, so the
kids can ask all kinds of questions.

Talk about clarinet (and music) activities: this past Saturday I went to see
my clarinet students in their all-county concert, then on Sunday I went to my
former teacher Keith Koons' recital at UCF at 3pm, then drove to St.
Augustine to see a voice recital at 6:30 (made it there by 6:24!). Then
Monday took 6 students to see Richard Stoltzman in Port Orange (suburb of
Daytona Beach).

But that's not all! THIS Saturday, CFLWinds rehearsal in Melbourne (south of
Cocoa Beach) for 3 hours, then back to Orlando for UCF Clarinet Day, where
Dr. Koons has as his guest clinician Allan Vache, jazz clarinetist (whose
wife is going with me to play in CFW, btw), which concludes at 5:30. Then
back up to Daytona for the Corigliano with Neidich!! WHEW!! I can add a
Maynard Ferguson concert on Sunday if I have any energy left.....

The Stoltzman concert, btw, was what you would expect. A wide variety of
music, absolutely exquisite playing in the Debussy Premiere Rhapsody---- I've
never heard anyone do the beginning that softly---and the rest of the piece
was just as wonderful. He also did the Bernstein Sonata, a piece that
really suits his style to a T.

His son, Peter John, played piano, and was fantastic! There were several
jazz pieces, where his son got to shine, and he also did many of the
arrangements. They did 'Porgy and Bess' selections, but they were not the
ones from the 'Aria' cd. A couple of them were close, but because there was
only piano accompaniment, both players improvised a lot. They did a set of 4
pieces from WSStory, also very nice. Everybody enjoyed the Bill Douglas
Miniatures at the end of the concert, esp. the infamous rhythmic etude scat
thing (can't remember what that's actually called!) that Douglas invented to
teach his students polyrhythms. The encore was 'Amazing Grace', which
Stoltzman really owns, as far as I'm concerned. I heard him do it at
Clarfest 94 in Chicago in memorium for Harold Wright, and the place was just
dead quiet--nobody moved or breathed until it was over.

Elise Curran
Orlando

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