Klarinet Archive - Posting 000170.txt from 2007/10

From: "Heinemann, Stephen" <sjh@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Copland concerto follow-up
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:26:05 -0400

Here is a bit of John von Rhein's Chicago Tribune review of Branford
Marsalis's performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, including the
Copland Clarinet Concerto transcribed for soprano saxophone:

"Marsalis' very free but sometimes choppy gloss on the Copland concerto
revealed much more about his own musical sensibility than it revealed about
the score Copland actually composed. I was glad to hear a jazz sax virtuoso
cutting loose in this music, but I've also heard better and more idiomatic
versions played on the clarinet by the CSO's Larry Combs.

"Much more fun was the encore, a freewheeling jam on the Thelonious Monk
classic 'Blue Monk' that put Marsalis' wailing soprano sax in friendly
competition with Combs' teasing clarinet. Bassist Robert Kassinger completed
the trio."

--Steve Heinemann

****************************
Dr. Stephen Heinemann
Associate Professor of Music
Theory/Composition/Clarinet
Bradley University
Peoria, IL 61625
(309)677-2603
sjh@-----.edu
****************************

------------------------------------------------------------------