Klarinet Archive - Posting 000855.txt from 2003/03

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Alan Balter and David Baker's Jaqzz Suite for Clarinet and Occhestra
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 20:42:32 -0500

I was going through a bunch of tapes to find out which ones I could
erase in preparation for an interview that I am going to do, the subject
of the interview being Eva Einstein, daughter of Alfred Einstein, though
this has nothing to do with my question.

I wanted to erase a couple of tapes because I always have a pile of them
around. One of them read "David Baker Jazz Suite Clarinet and
Orchestra, Alan Balter: (1) Jitterbug, (2) Slow Drag, (3)Calypso."

Now I have no idea where I got this tape or how it was recorded or who
sent it to me, but as I listened to Alan's elegant playing and his
enormous versatility in the jazz world, I was enchanted to hear my old
friend again. We worked together in a million Nutrcrackers, and he was
1st in the San Jose Symphony when I was bass clarinet. He later came
back to audition for the conducting position but was not chosen. On the
program he had chosen for his audition, there was nothing for me to
play. And since he and his wife were my house guests during the time
that he was here, I called him up and screamed "Why don't you have
something for me to play, preferably a double so I can make an
additional 25%."

Anyway, he added an overture by somebody (which was not a double) and I
was able to play the gig.

Does anyone know this work of David Baker or when Alan might have played
it with somebody, very probably the Memphis Symphony, though I don't
know that?
--
***************************
**Dan Leeson **
**leeson0@-----.net **
***************************