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Author: TomD
Date: 2010-03-09 19:21
I saw David Shifrin doing the Mozart concerto Saturday night 3/6 with the Bridgeport Symphony in Connecticut. He was great and the symphony was great. His playing of the Adagio was absolutely superb, as beautiful as I have ever heard it.
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Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2010-03-09 20:10
Went to high school with him. Interlochen Arts Academy. He was friggin amazing then, 1970 or about. He won the schools concerto competition and played the Neilson Concerto, it was pretty amazing to say the least.
I'm really glad you had a chance to hear him play. Did he play it with the extended clarinet? That horn was a Selmer with an added lower joint put on by a guy named Lenny Gullata - spelling. David had it made just to play both, the Mozart concerto and his quintet.
Anyway, he's one of the finest players I've ever heard. His sound quality is excellent and he has the fastest fingers on the planet!
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Author: TomD
Date: 2010-03-09 20:36
I was sitting in the mezzanine but it looked like it was just a normal A clarinet. I have the CD with him using the basset clarinet where he goes down to low 'C' and he didn't do that. The picture on the front of the CD shows the horn looking a lot longer than a normal clarinet. The program said he would be using a special clarinet but I don't think so. I am lucky to live near Yale where Shifrin teaches so I have seen him before. I saw him do the Copland Concerto last year and that was great plus I've seen him in a chamber setting with some of the yale faculty. He is principal in the New Haven Symphony. BTW, he had been using a Yamaha CSG for several years but the last two times I saw him, it didn't look like it. Not sure what he is playing now. I am 55 and taking some refresher lessons. Took 10 years as a kid but then let it go for years. I am just getting back into playing. Should have done it years ago. My teacher is assistant principal in the New Haven Symphony so she sits next to Shifrin. Things were easier as a kid. Now, sometimes I can really nail a difficult passage and then the next day, the fingers just don't do what the brain wants them to do. Oh well, I'm having fun.
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Author: reddog4063
Date: 2010-03-09 22:34
I was lucky enough to see David Shifrin play Copland's Concerto during the Yale series at Carnegie Hall a few months ago. Wow, I was truly amazed! That's the best clarinetist I have ever seen live and in person.
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2010-03-10 01:09
I heard him play it 20 years ago with a small chamber orchestra in Columbus. He was incredible. But the orchestra stank...
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Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2010-03-10 04:42
One thing for sure, after all of these years, he's still fantastic!
Is the Copland recording available on CD? If so, can anyone lead me to who may carry it?
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Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2010-03-10 09:18
Thank you Jack!
Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces
Yamaha Artist 2015
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