Klarinet Archive - Posting 000023.txt from 2003/03

From: "Andy Raibeck" <cactus@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Shepherd on the Rock
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 17:25:09 -0500

That was probably KUAT you were listening to, a great classical station in
Tucson.

No, the clarinetists in the Tucson Symphony are all men. However, Carol
Christofferson does substitute in the TSO -- maybe that was the name you
heard? (Incidentally, I just started taking lessons from her.)

Regards,

Andy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Leeson" <leeson0@-----.net>
Subject: [kl] Shepherd on the Rock

> This morning I was driving through Tucson, AZ on the way to El Paso. And
> Tucson has a good classical music station coming out of the University
> of Arizona. The discussion was about a performance of SotR that is to
> take place tonight (I think) and I found it curious that the discussion
> of the work on Klarinet had been so strong at the very time that I went
> through Tucson.
>
> The clarinetist is unknown to me and is a woman. I mention her gender
> only in case some knows of a good female clarinetist in Tucson. I think
> that at John Denman's death, his position as clarinetist in the TSO
> opened up and perhaps the lady clarinetist is that woman. It is not
> Jerry Kirkbride who teaches clarinet at the University (though I once
> heard him play it with his former wife who wound up doing several
> hundred performances of King and I with Brunner in a road production).
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