Klarinet Archive - Posting 000748.txt from 2002/04

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] tv performance of 622
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 14:58:56 -0400

I have cable access and one of the channels supplies a variety of
classical music programs, though very short ones. They might do an
aria, or one movement of a symphony, or a brief scene from a ballet.
They never do an entire work.

Today they presented a performance of the second movement of K. 622 as
played by Sharon Kam, who I believe is a young woman based on the fact
that the accompanying group was the European Community Youth Orchestra,
and I'm presuming she is a clarinet player in that group.

If my assumptions are right and she is somewhere between 17 and 23, she
is to be commended for such a splendid adult interpretation of the work,
though it was about as conservative as one can get. Still, her pitch
was solid, her mechanical skills excellent, and she had a sense of style
usually not present in a young student.

Unfortunately, the director of the TV film decided to be very modern, so
he placed a number of nice looking young students around a very large,
and otherwise empty room, with each holding but not playing an
instrument. I have no idea who these people were or if they had
anything to do with the European Community Youth Orchestra. One such
person held a clarinet, it was a young woman, and she was about 20, so
maybe that was Sharon Kam.

Does anyone know her?
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