Klarinet Archive - Posting 000040.txt from 2008/08

From: "Benjamin Maas" <benmaas@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Osmo Vanska
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:07:49 -0400

You're probably thinking of Jung Ho Pak who used to conduct San Diego =
but is
now in New Haven, I believe... He also used to conduct at the Idyllwild
Arts Academy (many moons ago when I was a student there). Also Larry
Livingston, who runs the conducting program at the University of =
Southern
California (USC) is also a clarinetist.

--Ben

Benjamin Maas
Fifth Circle Audio
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.fifthcircle.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Leeson [mailto:dnleeson@-----.net]=20
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 12:08 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Osmo Vanska
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> Oh yes. I was familiar with his history. Lots of clarinet=20
> players conduct, including Tony Pay, Alan Balter, the=20
> conductor of the San Diego Symphony (whose name esacapes me=20
> and he may not be there any longer), and others. I was simply=20
> intrigued that he was to take part in a chamber work, not in=20
> a clarinet solo.
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> I think he is also to do K. 622 with a basset clarinet, but=20
> on a different program.
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> I was simply trying to bring the man to the attention of the=20
> clarinet players who may not have known about him.
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> Dan Leeson
> dnleeson@-----.net
> SKYPE: dnleeson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne Thompson [mailto:wthompson7274@-----.net]
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 11:33 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Osmo Vanska
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> Dan, did you look into his history?
> From Wikipedia:
> Osmo V=E4nsk=E4 (born 28 February 1953 S=E4=E4minki, Finland) is a=20
> Finnish orchestra conductor. =A0He started his musical career=20
> as an orchestral clarinettist with the Turku Philharmonic=20
> (1971-1976). =A0He then became the principal clarinet of the=20
> Helsinki Philharmonic from 1977 to 1982. ........
> Wayne Thompson
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Daniel Leeson <dnleeson@-----.net>
> To: "klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 11:22:23 AM
> Subject: [kl] Osmo Vanska
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> Vanska is the music director of the Minnesota Orchestra who=20
> is going to
> conduct the Mostly Mozart Festival orchestra.=A0 One of the=20
> works to be done
> in the Mozart c minor octet and Vanska is going to play=20
> clarinet in it.=A0 See
> today's NY Times, page B1.
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> Let's hear it for the clarinet player!!
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> Dan Leeson
> dnleeson@-----.net
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