Klarinet Archive - Posting 000117.txt from 2004/02

From: "Noel Taylor" <r.n.taylor@-----.ac.uk>
Subj: [kl] BBC Interview about Rhapsodie in Blue
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 04:54:05 -0500

You can find an audio interview in RealPlayer format at the link below on
the BBC Radio 4 website. It is described below. You do have to listen to a
load of other stuff before it comes to the clarinet interview - El Greco etc
- but you eventually get there.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/frontrow/frontrow.shtml#collins

"CLARINETTIST COLLINS
80 years after the soaring clarinet siren which begins Gershwin's Rhapsody
in Blue was heard for the first time, the clarinettist Michael Collins
reveals to Mark Lawson just how difficult it is to play.

European Union Chamber Orchestra with Michael Collins on Clarinet, Fri 20
Feb 8pm

Thurs 12 Feb is 80th Aniv of the premiere of 'Rhapsody in Blue, Aeolian
Hall, NY

EMI just has re-released Collins's recording of 'Rhapsody In Blue with Simon
Rattle and the London Sinfonietta

Related links:
VM Artists: Michael Collins"

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Noel Taylor

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