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...Jazz clarinetist Don Byron’s latest album, “A Ballad for Many,” certainly deals in disorder. The first half hour of his collaboration with the Bang on a Can All-Stars—an instrumental group whose core of material comes from avant-garde composers like Brian Eno and Steve Reich—is dissonant enough to make acid jazz sound like Muzak...
...third movement’s revelry featured particularly notable solos by bassoonist David L. Richmond ’06 and clarinetist Alex M. Brash ’06, and heightened the pizzazz of the “Merry Gathering of Countryfolk...
...Harvard’s musical theater scene, which he first entered as part of the Harvard-Radclife Dramatic Club (HRDC) production “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” this fall. “There’s something for everyone here, from the juggler to the clarinetist to the swing dancer,” he said. “Also, it’s more intense [than in high school], but when you are with people for two weeks every night from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. you really get to know people.” Aside...
...Time Magazine.Don Byron may not be well-known among Harvard students, but he’s developed a reputation in the jazz world for ceaselessly shattering musical boundaries. This weekend, the Harvard Office For the Arts (OFA) and the Harvard Jazz Bands are bringing the 47-year-old clarinetist to campus as an Artist-in-Residence for the OFA’s ongoing “Learning with Performers” series. Byron is a rare breed of jazzman. Few choose to specialize in the clarinet. Few modern jazz artists are unafraid to be explicitly political; Byron routinely gives...
...tender age, little Jonathan A. Cohler ’88 had already traded in Big Bird for the big, bad world of the clarinet. Childhood talent matured into adult honors. Prior to attending Harvard, Cohler honed his musical skills just around the corner, under teacher Pasquale Cardillo, the principal clarinetist of the Boston Pops. In his first year at Harvard, Cohler won a fellowship from the world-renowned Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, becoming its youngest member. “Harvard was an ideal environment for me,” Cohler recalls in an interview. “It gave...