Klarinet Archive - Posting 000116.txt from 2010/10

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Goodman/Bartok/Contrasts
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 06:13:37 -0400

On 10/19/2010 06:33 AM, Tony Pay wrote:
> I shall certainly get hold of Schuller's book. I remember playing Martino's Triple Concerto with the London Sinfonietta and him conducting, and was amazed at his detailed knowledge of this complex score. And this in a man who was responsible for introducing me to Scott Joplin...

Did you ever play any of Schuller's own works? Some of them are fairly
complex beasties themselves -- he being fully trained up in serialism as
well as having a deep love of jazz.

It's been a long time since I listened to any of his stuff, but I have
very fond memories of a concert in the QEH where Joe Lovano played a
"Third Stream" piece Schuller had written for Eric Dolphy -- bass
clarinet and ensemble, with fairly complex modernist musical writing
combined with extended improvisation by the soloist. Actually IIRC
Lovano reproduced Dolphy's own improvised solo as well as extending it
with improvisations of his own.

There's a little solo clarinet piece Schuller wrote for William O. Smith
("Episodes") which is full of multiphonics and other new techniques (no
improvisation) -- I have it on my shelf, but the technical demands are a
bit beyond me ... :-(
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