Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stoltzman's technique is strikingly subtle. (A recording engineer once told him, "Oh, you're the guy who has no beginning to your notes.") Says Stoltzman: "I don't like how the clarinet sounds most of the 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...
...ensuing magnificent procession of Peers, fifteen strong, resplendently garbed and sporting rich velvet capes of different colors. The music itself not only parodies marches by Bellini, Meyerbeer, Wagner and Verdi but is also better than the pieces it satirizes. And the chorus of lords makes a full, lusty sound -- without the awful electronic amplification that mars most musical theater these days. These are Peers without peers...
...that intrudes here? Who is breathing? I pick a fern to see its spores, cast it away, and am filled in that instant with misgiving: the great sins, so the Sherpas say, are to pick wildflowers and to threaten children. My voice murmurs its regret, a strange sound that deepens the intrusion. I look about me - who is it that spoke? And who is listening? Who is this 'I' that is not always me? The voice of a solitary bird asks the same question...
Fred Buda's Big Band Sound, Saturday at 8 p.m., Boston Common...
...Then you've got to become selective," he said. "You have to learn to 'feel' particularly good sounds, such as the jazz sound of Billie Holliday, or the Pentacostal sounds from the line of Aretha Franklin... or the Blues of John Lee Hooker," he added...