Klarinet Archive - Posting 000664.txt from 2005/03

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] A little late
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:18:08 -0500

I know this is 15 years too late to be considered new news, but
I've been busy.

In the NY Times of today (3/31 - west coast edition), a concert
that took place at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan
presented a work that is the kind of thing that we should know
about, first because the instrumentation (clarinet, violin,
piano) is very much underrepresented with the exception of the
Milhaud and Khataturian trios (plus a few others), and second
because it got such a great review.

The work is by Paul Schoenfield, and the title is, not
surprisingly, "Trio," The reveiwer suggests that it is a
contompary classic of musical Judaica and its performance "raised
the temperature..., just before the intermission. This is a piece
that requires an understanding of klezmer and the technique and
sensibility to bring the nuances of the style to life. Moran
Katz, the group's clarinetist, had all the moves--the bent
pitches, the ornaments that make the clarinet seem to laugh, and
the soulful voicelike lyricism that is the thumbprint of the
klezmer style."

I have no idea if this is published or who might have published
it. Go nag Paul Schoenfield, not me.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

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