Klarinet Archive - Posting 000157.txt from 2009/09

From: "Charles Strum" <strum@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] A very special program
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:01:56 -0400


Mr. Leeson,

Hope you're feeling better soon.
Just FYI, Maureen Hurd, who performed at the Goodman legacy concert, teaches
clarinet at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers. She's the ICA
chairman for New Jersey. And you're right, she's got a Yale connection.
Here's an excerpt about her from the Rutgers Web site:

"She earned all of her graduate degrees including DMA from the
Yale School of Music where she worked with materials in the Benny Goodman
Papers of the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library. Her Goodman research has also
taken her to the Library of Congress, the Morgan Library, and the New York
Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center where in November
2007 she gave a lecture-recital featuring works from the Library's Benny
Goodman Collection.

In 2001 she was a prizewinner in the International Clarinet
Association (ICA) Research Presentation Competition for her Benny Goodman
research and lecture-recital presented at the ICA ClarinetFestR in New
Orleans, and she has written articles on this subject for The Clarinet,
journal of the ICA. She studied with David Shifrin, Joseph Messenger,
Charles Neidich, and Ayako Oshima."

Regards,
Chuck Strum

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Leeson [mailto:dnleeson@-----.net]
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 12:34 PM
To: Klarinet
Subject: [kl] A very special program

In today's NY Times (9/30) a concert (held 9/28) under the direction of
David Shifrin devoted itself to "The Classical Legacy of Benny Goodman." The
program was held at Zankel Hall, and I have been out of NY long enough not
to know where this facility is. I believe all the players were from Yale
where Shifrin teaches.

The program itself appears to have presented all of the classical music with
which Goodman was associated, and each work was played by a different
performer. There was the Poulenc sonata first performed by Goodman and
Bernstein at the piano. Pounlenc was to have been the accompanist but he
died. For the Saturday night performance, one Chad Burro played the work.

Bartok's Contrasts was played by clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois and
members of the Atria Ensemble. I heard her last summer doing a performance
of the Brahm's trio and she knocked me out. I posted on klarinet saying
that "I was in love." She happens to be gorgeous and plays exceptionally
well.

Benny's Gig and Recovery Music, both buy Morton Gould, involved several
clarinetists including Maureen Hurd, Mingzhe Wang, and Justin O'Dell.

Rendezvous by Alan Shulman (which was used to replace the Mozart quintet on
a 1948 radio broadcast) had Won Jin Cho as soloist. It's the same
instrumentation as the Mozart.

Finally Shifrin played the Copland.

Had I known about this concert in advance, I might have flown to New York to
hear it. But maybe that is simply empty bravado on my behalf because I just
got out of a hospital following spinal surgery. Everybody send candy.

For those with access to the NY Times, the review is on page C7

Dan Leeson

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