Klarinet Archive - Posting 000632.txt from 2010/09

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] NY Philharmonic opening night [X-posted to BB]
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:02:47 -0400

More cross-posting, since I just looked at the Bulleting Board again, where
Koo Young Chung posted the link to the New York Times review of the concert:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/arts/music/24philharmonic.html?_r=1&ref=music

Interesting that the New York Times reviewer, Anthony Tommasini, says there
was only one movement cut. Maybe I'm misremembering, but I'm pretty sure
Marsalis said during intermission that there were two movements cut.

Tommasini clears up the question of why the work premiered in Berlin:
>The piece was jointly commissioned by the New York
>Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Los Angeles
>Philharmonic and the Barbican in London. >

I agree with Tommasini's high praise of the baritone sax player, Joe
Temperley. I don't think Tommasini mentions the Philharmonic's principle
oboist, but I thought he also sounded superb. I'd love to hear solo CDs from
both of them. Tommasini also mentions the nifty finale that just fades away
at the end of the Swing Symphony. I agree with him about that, too, but I'm
already primed to squeal like a bad reed if it turns out that this
performance lopped off the last movement and that great sound (reminds me of
a New Orleans funeral procession marching away into the distance) isn't the
real end of the symphony.

Lelia Loban
http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/Lelia_Loban

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