Suddenly, there are clarinet performances popping up all over the place in the space of just a few days. Or at least, it seems that way.
On Sunday evening, UT faculty clarinetist (and KSO Principal Clarinet) Gary Sperl performed the Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622, with the UT Symphony Orchestra, using an extended range basset clarinet. My review of that concert can be found here.
On Monday evening, the Andy Statman Trio performed at Ironwood Studios. As Matthew Everett described Statman in a Metro Pulse spotlight:
"Statman picked up the clarinet and started playing an avant-garde, improvisational version of traditional Jewish Folk music, a startling fusion of old and new that combines elegant formalism with adventurous freedom."
On Saturday evening, clarinetist Kari Kriikku performed Magnus Lindberg's Clarinet Concerto with the New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert conducting, at a Carnegie Hall concert. Lindberg is a 51 year old Finnish composer who is currently the composer-in-residence of the New York Philharmonic. I wish I could have heard the performance--Vivien Schweitzer's review for the New York Times, "Clarinet Gets Acrobatic Workout," left me salivating.
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