Word: clarinets
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...force its instruments to their outer limits. When at tacking modernist music, Eaton, for instance, favors dissonant jumps from one end of the keyboard to the other, violently plucks at the piano's innards to get a harp effect. Smith has developed a technique of aiming his clarinet directly at the piano strings to create weird and ghostly harmonics. A virtuoso on his instrument. Smith also likes to push his clarinet above top C or to engage in a series of strangely manipulated double and triple stoppings. The piece most startling to audiences is a concoction by Smith...
...ensemble's cool jazz style is less weird, but technically just as adroit. With his left leg swinging, Pianist Eaton may toy with harmonies and tempi, bounce themes to the fluid clarinet, trade solos with the limpid trumpet. Underneath it all is a rock-solid bass. Last week the boys wound up with Long Ago and Far Away and a driving Summertime. The palazzo shivered, and the audience applauded. "An intellectual Newport," said a delighted U.S. composer as he made his way from the hall...
...program of recorded music next Monday through Friday at the Busch-Reisinger Museum garden will be Beethoven, Quartet no. 7; Brahms, Clarinet Quintet; Debussy, Images pour orchestre (work related to art); Carter, The Minotaur; Mozart, Concerto for two pianos no. 1; and Mozart, Divertimento...
...bush-bearded man, he stands on the bandstand, his trumpet like a toy kazoo in one hamlike hand. With his other hand, he sketches out a casual beat. Then he may break into a surprisingly agile buck and wing and lead his combo (trombone, clarinet, drums, bass, piano, trumpet) into a searing chorus of Down by the Riverside. Snarling, growling, shivering into a remarkably clean vibrato or soaring through long, liquid phrases, the trumpet slices through the group's sound like a blade...
...When Beethoven wrote his piano sonatas, he anticipated the Steinway piano." Certainly the public still seems to appreciate the human touch. The biggest personal hit at Venice was U.S. Composer William Smith, a member of the original Dave Brubeck Octet. While his eight-minute electronic Improvisation, replete with amplified clarinet key clicks, breath noises, and echo chamber effects, boomed over the loudspeakers, Clarinetist Smith stood by improvising. For the only time in the entire congress, the audience was moved to applause...