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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2021-06-28 08:49
In this "Young performers" Concert with Leonard Bernstein (1963) he introduces a young Claudio Abbado. It's wonderful to see Abbado conducting Ravel's Introduction et Allegro. His technique is already so clear and connected to the music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBVjUk0s3kA
The Ravel starts at around 2:35
The young clarinetist also being introduced in this piece is Weldon Berry. Does anybody know what became of him?
Post Edited (2021-06-28 19:38)
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2021-06-29 00:10
Weldon Berry graduated from the Curtis institute in 1969. In 1975 he was performing with the Symphony of the New World in New York City. That orchestra was notable for its sustained commitment to admit African-Americans and other racial minorities to its ranks. I believe as an enterprise it lasted at best for maybe 7 or 8 years. Following that, Berry seems to have disappeared from view as a musician. For black musicians, it was one thing to have talent and receive excellent training and quite another to secure a good position in a classical music organization. Regrettably, Berry's disappearance is probably not unusual for that time. I was acquainted with Thomas Malcom Jones, a young Afro-American clarinetist who appeared as soloist with the New Orleans Philharmonic and went to Cleveland to study with Robert Marcellus in the early 1960s. I met with him once or twice when he returned to New Orleans, and he seemed to be doing quite well in his studies with Marcellus. Hopeful and enthusiastic, he was tapped to play a concert or two in an ensemble at Newcomb College formed by Paul Epstein (a Berio student) when John Cage visited the campus. But I lost touch when I was drafted in 1965 and have never heard anything from or about him since then.
Post Edited (2021-06-29 00:32)
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