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Re: Alan Balter, clarinetist

Author: dgclarinet
Date: 2016-01-29 17:52

Dave...I studied with Alan Balter when I was in high school. I then went to Georgia State to study with him, but he left Atlanta the same year. Thank you so much for pointing out that youtube recording.
I would agree with you about the life changing (or at least clarinet life changing) aspect of studying with him. He would take my horn in lessons, with my awful mouthpiece and reed, and make the most incredibly beautiful sounds I ever heard. So inspiring. His playing with the Atlanta Symphony was just as inspiring. He had a huge sound...not really evident in recordings, but it was there in real life.
I still hear his sound every time I play the horn. I just wish I could come close to that sound.

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