Word: mozarts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stoltzman, 36, is challenging all that. A short, engagingly boyish virtuoso who has chosen a solo career over an orchestra seat, Stoltzman has an almost magical rapport with his instrument. His recent sell-out appearance in the Mostly Mozart series at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, where he wore a velvet jacket and what he calls his "dress sneakers," turned into a celebration of the clarinet's possibilities. In Mozart's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A Major, which he performed with the Tokyo String Quartet, Stoltzman glided effortlessly through long, sustained phrases. He caressed his instrument...
...Mostly Mozart success-Stoltzman will appear four more times in the popular summer festival-is by now standard. Last year, he won a $2,500 Avery Fisher prize, awarded by Lincoln Center to "exceptionally talented younger instrumentalists." He has performed as guest soloist with many major chamber groups. He has released two solo albums; the latest, The Art of Richard Stoltzman (Desmar), is a marvelous collection of 19th century French clarinet pieces. He will make his debut with the New York Philharmonic next year. Says Violinist Isaac Stern: "Rarely have I heard such a virtuoso use of the clarinet...
...time. In the official style, you don't have enough freedom to wander." His own clarinet, by turns, mimics the fluttery delicacy of a flute, the finespun song of a violin, a bassoon's dark, melancholy air. His playing refuses to sound well-schooled. Even Mozart runs take off so spontaneously that Stoltzman might almost be improvising-as he often does. He recently took part in a jazz workshop at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and let fly with some big-band solos. Says he: "I told them that I'm basically a classical musician...
...music Jimmy Carter has catholic tastes. Among his favorites: Mozart, Bob Dylan, and Willie Nelson, 45, carousing king of outlaw country. At the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md., the shirt-sleeved President and his pantsuited wife Rosalynn helicoptered in from Camp David to join the ranks of 12,000 fans and hear Willie match vocal cords with Emmylou Harris, 31. When Willie finished Georgia on My Mind, Carter emerged from the sidelines, and the two good ole boys who made good wrapped each other...
Concert: Harvard Chamber Orchestra. Works of Kirchner. Stravinsky and Mozart. 8:30 p.m., Sanders Theater. Free...