Klarinet Archive - Posting 000011.txt from 2004/12

From: Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinet playing on a recently released movie
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 13:38:59 -0500

Hello Dan,

I already won your horn once. Remember the question about Broadway Danny=
Rose?

Here is the bio of the clarinetist on the Terminal recording:

Emily Bernstein (clarinet)
Emily Bernstein is the Principal Clarinetist of the Los Angeles Opera,=20
Pl=E1cido Domingo, Artistic Director and Kent Nagano, Principal Conductor.=
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She is also Principal with the Pasadena Symphony under the direction of=20
Jorge Mester. She is a member of the acclaimed contemporary music ensemble=
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XTET, which has presented numerous world premieres. Ms. Bernstein makes=20
frequent appearances as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the west.=
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She is an active studio musician and has performed on hundreds of motion=20
picture and television scores including, Catch Me If You Can,Pirates of the=
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Caribbean,Sea Biscuit,and JAG. In addition to her performing career, Ms.=20
Bernstein maintains an extensive private teaching studio. Ms. Bernstein=20
graduated with honors from Stanford University and earned a Master of Music=
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degree from the Eastman School of Music.

Gary
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At 10:02 AM 12/1/04, you wrote:
>To watch at home, I got a copy of "The Terminal" with Tom Hanks
>as directed by Steven Spielberg with music by John Williams. It's
>about a guy stuck in a terminal at JFK for 9 months.
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>But the movie is really a clarinet concerto for large portions of
>it, particularly the end credits which go on for about 10
>minutes.
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>Wonderful clarinet music and also some very excellent clarinet
>playing. To correspond with the made up nationality of the lead
>male character (from the country of Krakosnia, a pseudo-former
>Russian republic), the music attempted to be slavic in nature,
>but it turned out to be pseudo klezmer.
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>Good picture too, but who was that very excellent
>clarinetist???????
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>I will give my basset horn (except for the bocal and lower joint
>and bell and upper joint and peg) to the person who identifies
>the clarinetist. No made up names please. Proof or source must
>be supplied. Failure to do so will disqualify the submitter and
>result in insults, flames, nagging, and no pizza.
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>Dan Leeson
>DNLeeson@-----.net
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