Klarinet Archive - Posting 000495.txt from 2004/11

From: "Jim Lytthans" <lytthans@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Marine Band
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 01:40:42 -0500

I had the great fortune to hear the Marine Band "The President's Own"
perform tonight in Cerritos, CA. What a wonderful group, as always. Jihoon
Chung, one of their clarinetists, played a transcription by Tom Knox of the
last movement of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.... beautifully, and from
memory. He then did that wonderful klezmer-like solo by John Williams, from
the film "The Terminal". I had the opportunity to hear Jihoon play the
Tchaikovsky at the last ICA 'Fest in MD, in an arrangement for clarinet
choir and solo. Tonight's accompaniment was with a small wind ensemble
without clarinets. Much more effective, since the solo line was not buried
in all the clarinet mush. I've performed the band arrangement of the
Debussy "Rhapsodie" several times and find it difficult to play through the
woodwind sound, even in front of the band. Even one on a part still causes
problems. Maybe I'll do an arrangement w/o clarinets! As an undergrad at
USC, Bill Schaefer, our director, did an arrangement of the Weber Concertino
without clarinets in the accompaniment, since we generally played the solo
part as a section. It worked wonderfully.

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Jim Lytthans
Anaheim, CA
http://home.earthlink.net/~lytthans/index.html

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