Klarinet Archive - Posting 000752.txt from 2002/04

From: gdubac@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] tv performance of 622
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 19:03:01 -0400

She was remarkable at a very young age - I have a vague memory of hearing
her play K622 at Ravinia on the radio when she was in her teens.
We have her CD of Mozart/Krommer. Lovely, and no basset clarinet.

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From: "Daniel Leeson" <leeson0@-----.net>
Subject: [kl] tv performance of 622

> 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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