Klarinet Archive - Posting 000862.txt from 2003/03

From: "Stacy-Michelle" <stacy-michelle@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Alan Balter and David Baker's Jaqzz Suite for Clarinet and Occhestra
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 23:17:02 -0500

Hi. I have this CD called "American Voices" of the works of African-
American composers. The piece is on there with the Akron Symphony,
with Balter himself conducting. The year says 1995. One of my
favorites.

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:54:49 -0800, Dan Leeson
<leeson0@-----.net> wrote :

> 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?
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Soulfully,

Stacy-Michelle Valentine
http://clarinetvibe.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ClassicallyBlack

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you
don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's
a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to
art." - Charlie Parker

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