Klarinet Archive - Posting 000043.txt from 2002/12

From: "rien stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subj: [kl] Re: Martin Powell
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 18:36:09 -0500

John J. O'Neill" <avodah@-----.com> wrote

> Dear List,
>
> I hesitated before writing this letter, but I can't sit idly by while
> one of our members awaits an apparent never-to-be invitation to perform
> at a ClarinetFest. The List member is Martin Powell.

If things go according to my wish, Martin will be invited to play on the
next clarfest in Europe: that will enable me to go there. It would be nice
to meet him! From the few contacts I had with Martin, and those mostly by
e-mail, I have the impression he is a modest, maybe even somewhat shy
person.

>Many of you have received and listened to his Son et Lumiere CD, which was
given high
>praise in The Clarinet.

Also in "De klarinet", the Dutch pendant of "the Clarinet" Martin was
praised extensively. But not because of the Bumblebee, actually the
criticist (me) wondered why Martin also had recorded this particular piece,
as he had already shown his virtuosity in other pieces. The Australian
clarinet society in its also very appraising discussion of the cd, declared
Martin was experimenting with tempi.

Had this discussion been going on before I wrote my discussion of the CD, it
might have been slightly different, because of Martin's remark on this list,
that he did not want to play fast, but tried to sound as a bumblebee.

> the current emerging prodigy.

Martin was born in 1962. I don't think you can someone nearly fourty name a
"prodigy", (though of course in my eyes he is still almost a child, as I
could be his father!).

> Martin Powell is a very gifted artist who does not receive the exposure,

I quite agree.

> John O'Neill

---------------------------------------------------------------------

   
     Copyright © Woodwind.Org, Inc. All Rights Reserved    Privacy Policy    Contact charette@woodwind.org