Klarinet Archive - Posting 000766.txt from 2002/04

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] tv performance of 622 - Sharon Kam
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 08:50:34 -0400

Thank you Terry. The information you sent was more than ample for my
needs. The film I saw must have been rather old, because the young
woman holding the clarinet (who I presume was Kam) looked about 20 at
the time. Attractive woman, too.

Dan Leeson

Terry B wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> I bought a CD by her just last Saturday. Clarinet Concertos - Mozart in
> A Major K 622 & Krommer in E flat Major op. 36. She plays with the
> Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra on this CD. It is excellent! My daughter
> is the clarinet player of the family and this has served as good
> motivation for her as Sharon did not start playing clarinet until she
> was 12 years old, like my daughter. Sharon Kam will be 31 this year.
>
> Some notes from the CD jacket:
>
> "Sharon Kam was only 12 when she decided to become a soloist, rather
> than pursue the usual career of an orchestra woodwind player. She had
> just started taking clarinet lessons, and it was not long before she
> made her professional debut playing Schumann's Phantasiestucke op 73.
> She had if fact spent a number of years playing a recorder, an
> instrument on which she had enjoyed some notable successes and that had
> given her a good deal of pleasure, but it's limited repertory finally
> persuaded her to switch to the clarinet"
>
> There is a lot more, but I am a lousy typist, and that's all you are
> going to get from me. :-)
>
> If you would like to know more about her I would be happy to get one of
> my kids to type the jacket notes in their entirety. They can both use
> the practice.
>
> Terry Broyles
> Proud parent of Christina on piano & clarinet, and Michael on trumpet
> ;-)
>
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