Klarinet Archive - Posting 000956.txt from 2003/02

From: "Blake Arrington" <klarinetteman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] William O. Smith at University of North Texas
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 23:42:35 -0500

Dear List Members,

I just wanted to pass this along to all of you. If you are in the Dallas,
TX area, please try to attend some of William O. Smith's recitals and
lectures.

Thanks,

J. Blake Arrington
Graduate Student--University of North Texas
Principal Clarinet--Opera in the Ozarks
Principal Bass & Eb Clarinet--Irving Symphony Orchestra

William O. "Bill" Smith

Clarinetist in Residence

March 6-7, 2003

The University of North Texas
College of Music

March 5
11:00 a.m.---Lecture: Composer as Performer
MEIT (Music Building 1001)
March 6
12:00 noon - Lecture: The Evolution of Extended Techniques for Woodwinds
Recital Hall

6:30 p.m.----Recital: The first half of the program will feature original
works for clarinet by the performer. After the intermission, he will be
joined by College of Music jazz faculty members Stefan Karlsson, piano:
Lynn Seaton, bass and Ed Soph, drumset. Music Building: Recital Hall

March 7
1:00 p.m. - Lecture: The Extended Clarinet
Music Building room 232

*Events are open to the public at no charge*

Born in Sacramento, California, William O. Smith began playing the clarinet
at the age of ten. In his teens, he initiated the dual life that he has
followed ever since: leading a jazz orchestra while also performing with the
Oakland Symphony. Mr. Smith studied at Juilliard (1944-45), Mills College
with Darius Milhaud (1946-47), the University of California with Roger
Sessons (1947-51), and the Paris Conservatory (1952-53). His awards include
a Prix de Rome, the Phelan Award, a Fromm Players Fellowship, a National
Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and two Guggenheim Fellowships. He taught
at the University of California, Berkeley, the San Francisco Conservatory,
and the University of Southern California. From 1966 to 1997 he was director
of the Contemporary Group at the University of Washington. His association
with Dave Brubeck began at Mills College, where he was one of the founders
of the Dave Brubeck Octet and responsible for many of the group's
arrangements. His Schizophrenic Scherzo, written for the octet in 1947, was
one of the first successful integrations of jazz and classical procedures, a
style which later became known as "third stream." He was one of the earliest
performers to experiment in the early 1960s with new color resources for the
clarinet, as in his Duo for Flute and Clarinet (1961). He also was
responsible for a number of other works using these sonorities, including
Gunther Schuller's Episodes, Larry Austin's Current for Clarinet and Piano,
William Bergsma's Illegible Canons, Pauline Oliveros' The Wheel of Fortune,
and Luigi Nono's A Floresta.

Mr. Smith's appearance in made possible by grants from The Anne & Gordon
Getty Foundation, the University of North Texas College of Music Division of
Instrumental Studies and Woodwind Area, and the Division of Composition
Studies.

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