Klarinet Archive - Posting 000627.txt from 2002/11

From: Mark Gresham <mgresham@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Alan Balter
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:57:35 -0500

CBA wrote:
>
> Mark,
>
> I unfortunately never did get to hear Alan play clarinet,
[...]
> I do wish I could hear some of his
> recordings now. Any ideas? What has he recorded solo? What years
> was he actually with the ASO?
>
> Kelly Abraham
> Woodwinds - New York City

Hello klarinet list,
I got some info on Kelly's request this morning from Nick Jones,
Atlanta Symphony program annotator (and actually a student of Balter's
some years ago, something I never knew, though Nick and I sat together
on the front row of the second tenor section in the ASO Chorus for a few
years). I've truncated his answer, excuding personal an peripheral
stuff, leaving in the essentials:

[Nick Jones wrote:]
> Alan Balter was with the ASO as Principal Clarinet 1967-75. He was named
> Apprentice Conductor in 1972 and bumped up to Conducting Assistant in 1973.
[...]
> Telarc made a recording (CD-80409; ca. 1993) with him conducting the Akron
> Symphony in works by Childs, Baker & Banfield. He was also clarinet soloist
> in David Baker's <Jazz Suite>. The Akron Symphony offers a 3-CD set that
> includes (among other pieces led by Lane and the present music director)
> Balter conducting Mahler's Symphony No. 6 and Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, in
> which he's also soloist (see http://www.akronsymphony.org/cdset1.htm).
> Those are the only recordings of Balter I know of.
[...]
> As soloist with the ASO, Balter played in:
> Falla's Concerto for Harpsichord and Quintet in December '67
> Works by Revueltas, Castiglioni, & Foss on a Chamber Series concert in
> January '68
> Mozart's Clarinet Quintet and Stravinsky's <Soldier's Tale> on a Chamber
> Series concert in March '68
> Mozart's Sinfonia concertante for Winds in January '69
> Lukas Foss's <Echoi> on a Chamber Series concert in February '69
> Olly Wilson's Sextet for Winds on a Chamber Series concert in March '69
> Mozart's Concerto in May '69
> Debussy's Rhapsody in January '70
> Schumann's Phantasiestücke, Op. 73, on a chamber program in December '74
>
> He also conducted works by Carter, Varèse, Bach, & John W. Work, but
> never
> on the main subscription series. In May '71 he conducted Stravinsky's
> <Soldier's Tale> with Robert Shaw as narrator.
[...]

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