Word: clarionets
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...Clarionet-Wilson...
...Clarionet - C. V. Busch...
...Symphony, which is popularly considered nearly, if not quite, the equal of the famous fifth. The symphony in all its motives is essentially a dance rhythm. It contains many beautiful passages for solo instruments, notably that for second horn in the next to the last movement and one for clarionet near the beginning. The orchestra did not seem in their best form in this last number; several careless mistakes marred the rendering of the programme from a critical standpoint, but these came in minor details so that they did not have a material effect...
...first number on the programme was Mendelssohn's Overture "Hebrides." The work opens with the introduction of a theme which is repeated, again and again, by different instruments, a sort of answering from the wood instruments to the brass. In the middle is introduced a duet for clarionet with a soft accompaniment by the rest of the orchestra. At the end of each variation of the main theme the whole orchestra works up to a climax so that the effect of the whole on the hearer is that of repeated strokes which die away so quietly that their frequency...
...descriptive of poems by De Lisle, Hugo and Godard. The first. Nikia's Dream, has a beautiful melody for the oboe, taken up by the violins, and then changing to a subject employing the whole orchestra. In the second, In the Hammock, the pricipal theme is introduced by the clarionet and worked out by the strings. The two pieces are excellent examples of the modern French school, unpretentious and not deep, but pleasing and melidious with rich instrumentation...