Klarinet Archive - Posting 000000.txt from 2009/10

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] A very special program
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:33:58 -0400

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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