Klarinet Archive - Posting 000239.txt from 2006/09
From: Laurence Beckhardt <lbeckhardt@-----.net> Subj: Re: [kl] Concert Announcement - Seattle Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:40:19 -0400
can you tell us something about the Duet #3? Is it an
arrangement of something else?
--- Sean Osborn <feanor33@-----.net> wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> It's that time of year again, when I gather some of
> Seattle's finest
> clarinetists together for our free concert and
> geek-fest. This year, in
> celebration of turning 250, we're doing all Mozart,
> including his Concerto,
> Duet #3, and Divertimento #4 for three Basset Horns
> - or is it Hounds, I
> never can remember.
>
> Anyway, should be great fun, and I hope you can
> attend. Please tell your
> friends and neighbors, and keep watch in your email
> for many upcoming
> concerts this fall featuring yours truly.
>
> Stodgy press-release-style info to follow.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sean
>
>
> Clarinettissimo VI - All Mozart
>
> Sunday, October 1st, 4PM
> PONCHO Hall, Kerry Hall, Cornish College of the
> Arts, 710 E Roy St., Seattle
> Admission FREE
> Music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
> Performing: Sean Osborn, Jennifer Nelson, Mary
> Kantor, clarinets, with
> Roger Nelson, Piano
> Concert contact: Sean Osborn (206) 368-7091
>
> Former Metropolitan Opera Clarinetist Sean
> Osborn presents the
> Sixth Annual Clarinettissimo concert. The free,
> educationally-based
> concert is presented each fall. Students and
> clarinet lovers are
> especially encouraged to attend. The pieces, their
> compositional devices,
> and their historical context will be spoken about
> before each is performed,
> in a relaxed and casual atmosphere. Musician jokes
> may also make an
> appearance.
>
> In celebration of his 250th birthday, this
> year's Clarinettissimo
> will be all-Mozart. The program will have some
> discussion of Mozart's love
> for the clarinet, and his muse, lodge-mate, and
> drinking-buddy Anton
> Stadler. The program begins with the Clarinet
> Concerto in A Major, K. 622
> - Mozart's last concerto and orchestral work. After
> the intermission, Ms.
> Nelson will join Mr. Osborn on Mozart's Duet No. 3
> in F for Two
> Clarinets. Ms. Nelson and Ms. Kantor will then
> break out the basset horns
> for Divertimento No. 4 in F for Three Basset-Horns.
>
> Sean Osborn has traveled the US and Europe
> as soloist and chamber
> musician, and traveled the world during his eleven
> years with the
> Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He has also appeared
> as principal clarinet
> with the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony,
> Seattle Symphony, and
> the American Symphony Orchestra. The New York Times
> dubbed him "...an
> excellent clarinetist," the Boston Globe called him
> "...a miracle." Osborn
> is currently on the faculty of the Cornish College
> of the Arts, and the
> University of Washington.
>
> Jennifer Nelson, Dash Point native, is currently
> Principal Clarinet with
> the Pacific Northwest Ballet and the Auburn Symphony
> Orchestras. She also
> has a very active freelance career, including
> playing with the Seattle
> Symphony and Opera Orchestras, and records for
> various television and
> motion picture scores, and is on the faculty at the
> University of Puget Sound.
>
> Clarinetist Mary Kantor is currently principal
> clarinetist with the
> Bellevue Philharmonic and the Seattle Choral
> Company. As a soloist, she has
> performed the Mozart Concerto and Richard Strauss'
> Duet-Concertino with
> Philharmonia Northwest. She has also performed with
> the Seattle Symphony,
> Seattle Opera, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and the
> Northwest Chamber
> Orchestra, as well as on numerous movie soundtracks,
> and is Professor of
> clarinet at SPU.
>
> A member of the Cornish faculty since 1979 and Chair
> from 1981 to 1983,
> Roger Nelson performs frequently as a pianist and
> conductor. He conducted
> the Bainbridge Orchestra (1987-2000) and was the
> pianist with the New
> Performance Group from 1979-1997. He currently
> conducts the Seattle
> Creative Orchestra and plays with TANEKO, a resident
> trio at Cornish.
> www.osbornmusic.com
>
> www.osbornmusic.com
>
>
>
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