Word: clarinet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French and Russian music, especially the orchestrations ("A harp in an orchestra is like a hair in the soup"). Yet his sonorous, spontaneous-sounding scores so deftly exploit the personality of individual instruments that they speak like characters in a drama-in fact, they often battle each other. His Clarinet Concerto, for example, is built around an argument between the clarinet and snare drum, with the orchestra kibitzing...
...basketball sense developed over eight years at Clemson and North Carolina State. And, oh yes, a guy named Pete-Peter Maravich, 20, his son and favorite basketball player. At 6 ft. 5 in. and 170 Ibs., Pete Maravich looks, as one sportswriter put it, "like a cross between a clarinet and a filter king." But basketball, at least in college, is still a game for shooters not bruisers, and in that department Pete comes on like gunsmoke...
...early 19th century classic and large Romantic works at either end of his programs, Yannatos has persistently scheduled pieces of 20th century music--often recent compositions--as keystones of his concerts. On Friday he led the HRO in performances of Mozart's Overture to Die Zauberfloete, the new clarinet concerto by professor emeritus Walter Piston, and that song to end all songs, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. What more could one ask of an evening...
...hundred-seventy-six years separate the Mozart from Piston's Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, completed last July. In import, however, the two are not so very far apart. Written in a thoroughly modern idiom, Piston's piece nevertheless has all the brevity, forward drive and essential lyricism of a Mozart horn concerto. Soloist John C. Adams combined a capacity for pyrotechnics with a sensuous pianissimo that must be the envy of all clarinetists...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will present a concert at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre. James D. Yannatos will conduct a program of Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde, Mozart, Overture to the Magic Flute, and Walter Piston, Clarinet Concerto. Tickets available at the door...