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...Richard Stoltzman: clarinet, Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory...
There he lived for two years in a semi-commune of string students. "Not only did I come to feel that music was essential to life," says Stoltzman, "but I was surrounded by people who tried to play like a voice singing, something neglected by clarinetists." He credits those two years with his interest in expanding the clarinet's color, after which his technique was inspired by Kalman Opperman, a New York teacher of the strict "old school...
...Says Stoltzman: "One of the first things that he told me was that I moved my fingers like a country bumpkin-and I already had a master's degree from Yale...
...Stoltzman now lives in Manhattan with his wife, Lucy, 26, and his year-old son, Peter John. Lucy, a violinist, occasionally supplements the family income by playing with Broadway shows. Stoltzman spends his free time transcribing music from other instruments for the clarinet to help fill out its meager repertory. One of the Mostly Mozart performances will include Mozart's Concerto in B-Flat, composed for the bassoon...
...career takes off, Stoltzman is increasingly on the road, appearing with regional symphonies or with the TASHI Quartet, which he helped to organize. His ambition now is to do for the clarinet what Casals did for the cello: transform his instrument into an eloquent solo performer. "Last spring, when I was playing in Vancouver with the Amadeus Quartet," says Stoltzman, "a 90-year-old man came backstage and said, 'That's the first time the clarinet ever sounded human to me.' That's what I want-to make music that will liberate people." - Annalyn Swan