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Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2009-02-27 12:32
There aren't many clarinetists -- compared to the number of violinists and pianists -- who have achieved the summit of orchestral conducting. Judging from this glowing review from London, the Minnesota Orchestra's Osmo Vanska is definitely a hot item in the orchestral world. The only other clarinetist/conductor with comparable celebrity that I can bring to mind is Sir Colin Davis.
I've had the pleasure of playing under Vanska for a couple of weeks a few years back; this review seems to confirm my experience. Any other clarinetists that you know of who have also made it big on the podium (don't tell me Keith Lockhart)?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/ivanhewett/4838241/Minnesota-Orchestra-and-Joshua-Bell-make-a-thrilling-sound---review.html
Post Edited (2009-02-27 12:33)
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Author: Neal Raskin
Date: 2009-02-27 13:11
I recently attended a Minnesota Orchestra Concert. It was hands down, the best, most musical, balanced, in tune and enjoyable concert I have ever been to. The program was Nielsen 5, and Sibelius 2. It was absolutely amazing. The two encores were excellent as well. I sure got my money's worth out of that concert.
If you've never heard the Minnesota Orchestra, I would highly recommend getting a hold of one of their Beethoven cds.
Amazing.
BTW, if you want to hear their London performance. It will be broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio at 8pm central time tonight. MPR is also available on iTunes under the classical section.
I'll certainly be listening,
Neal Raskin
www.youtube.com/nmraskin
www.musicedforall.com
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2009-02-28 21:27
Dan Oberlin wrote:
> A clarinetist on the way up as a conductor: David Hattner.
In the Tokyo area, a clarinetist on the way up as a conductor: Stephen Charette.
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Author: ABerry
Date: 2009-03-03 19:32
A couple of other conductor clarinetists:
The late Efrain Guigui- clarinetist with the Buenos Aires Symphony, studied conducting with Otto Klemperer, Herbert von Karajan, Erich Kleiber and Leopold Stokowsky
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Carl F. Long Jr.- Concert Master of The United States Air Force Band. Studied clarinet with Robert Marcellus, Larry Combs,
conductor of The Prince William Symphony Orchestra as well as the United States Air Force Band
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Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2009-03-03 20:00
Clarification: Just because a clarinetist has wielded a baton, that does no ipso fact make him "made good." The point of my original post was to identify conductors of the top rank who are accomplished clarinetists in their own right.
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Author: ABerry
Date: 2009-03-04 04:08
Hank,
Did Greenspan ever conduct? An orchestra I mean? Everyone knows he conducted Congress quite well...as well as the Federal Reserve...
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Author: edk
Date: 2009-03-16 12:41
In the 80's I was a member of the Akron Symphony - the conductor was the late Alan Balter.
edk
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Author: Dan Oberlin ★2017
Date: 2009-03-16 14:00
From the Wikipedia article on Tony Pay:
He has conducted the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in Germany, Austria and Holland, and the London Sinfonietta throughout Europe, as well as guest-conducting with orchestras in Scandinavia, Italy and the United States.
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Author: FrankM
Date: 2009-03-16 14:04
Do many pros aspire to conducting as a logical “step up” from playing ? I’m an amateur, but have on occasion done some conducting and I much prefer playing.
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Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2009-03-16 20:48
When Gerard Schwarz transitioned from Principal Trumpet with the NY Philharmonic to be a conductor -- eventually with the Seattle Symphony -- he told a friend of mine that he was relieved to no longer have worry about his performances being affected by not getting enough sleep, eating the wrong foods etc. To which clarinetists cum conductors might add: worrying about reeds.
I had forgotten about Alan Balter; he was a brilliant clarinetist whose playing career was cut short by oral cancer. Although I can't say that conducting the Memphis Symphony is exactly the pinnacle, the one time I got to play for him -- Mozart Grand Partita -- I thought he was excellent. It's a shame that he died before reaching his full potential as a conductor.
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