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Author: williamalex54
Date: 2014-01-01 21:16
This show was recorded in Sept. 2013 but broadcast on New Year's Eve. S. Williamson is playing principal, and you can see the basset horn in the Golijov.
archived!
If you live outside the USA, I'd be curious if you can watch the video and what country you are watching from.
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365138199/
Post Edited (2014-01-01 16:18)
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2014-01-02 12:58
I enjoyed this concert a lot, particularly the Piazzolla (with good parts for the clarinets, too). I'd be interested to hop the T.A.R.D.I.S. and find out whether he's considered an important composer a hundred years from now. I think he should be.
Any mention of "Bolero" tends to make me roll my eyes on auto-pilot, but I have to admit this performance held my attention, despite my annoyance with the PBS announcer who tried to manipulate the audience. She acknowledged that "Bolero" has become a cliché, tainted by association with mangled audio in figure-skating competitions and so forth, and then she showed a picture of Toscanini conducting it, as if to imply, "You don't dare laugh at this piece because ... TOSCANINI conducted it, so there!" Pfui. Nevertheless -- stripped of the unfortunate associations and played by a first-rate orchestra, it is a genuinely interesting piece of music, and in a TV broadcast, it's a great opportunity to get a good look at most of the orchestra's first-chair players. Apropos of which, the man playing so splendidly on e-flat clarinet looked as if his head was about to blow up.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2014-01-03 05:28
The New York Philharmonic clarinet section blends and tunes remarkably well, though they play on three different clarinet designs. S. Williamson, the new principal cl., uses a Selmer Signature, Pascual Forteza uses a Buffet Tosca, and Mark Nuccio uses another model Buffet, probably an R-13. This shows that absolute uniformity of instrument design is not necessary in a clarinet section to achieve excellence. Of course, we already knew this from the example of the Chicago Symphony clarinet section in which Leblanc Opus (and later Backun), Buffet, and Yamaha instruments were played side by side by expert musicians in a most satisfying blend.
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