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Video- Clarinet Finger Love Fest in Brahms Schoenberg Giant Orchestration

Brahms Schoenberg Orchestral Clarinet Excerpts

This past weekend the Columbus Symphony played a ring dinger of a piece, both musically and technically; the Schoenberg arrangement/transcription of the Brahms Piano Quartet Opus 25. It’s like playing a Brahms symphony on Mahler steroids and sounding at times like a huge Bach Toccata. This music presents daunting challenges, from intonation and balance issues due to the thick orchestration, to the numerous technically difficult licks. In this video I demonstrate and offer practice tips on many clarinet excerpts from this gorgeous music. The clarinet sheet music for the excerpts are below, if you...

Nutcracker Clarinet solos, an introduction with tips

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! What better way to celebrate the season than to talk about The Nutcracker clarinet solos! Enjoy.

On words, music, and serendipity, too.

First of all, Happy Thanksgiving to All! It’s been awhile since I posted actual words here. The past five “posts” have been videos of me playing, something I plan...

I’ll be playing this wonderful and little known piece in November, a late work of Richard Strauss, his Duett Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon with strings and harp accompaniment....

My Funny Valentine Sweet Comic Valentine You Make Me Smile With My Heart You’re Looks Are Laughable, Unphotographable Yet You’re My Favorite Work Of Art Is Your Figure Less...

Warming up for tonight’s concert with the Columbus Symphony. The program includes Jeniffer Higdon’s ravishing tone poem, Blue Cathedral, followed by Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. The Higdon piece ends...

Rachmaninoff Vocalise Op. 34, NO. 14. Video of my practice today. Great piece for working on phrasing and breath control. Mom loves this piece (and has sung it) and...

While waiting to begin my practice I strayed…

After returning home again two nights ago post-two-week-trip to visit family and friends, local life and living required extra attention to catch up. Plans to meditate and practice clarinet...

Brett Sheehy bursts classical music’s cultural bubble

“Classical music is a “tyrannical” term, implying music written by dead white men. When I do present an older classical work, I want to present it through a 21st-century...

Freedom is the real issue. Is the role of technology to open us to new possibilities or is it, as more and more in Silicon Valley are trying to...

Clarinetist and teacher Ray Wheeler (1930-2006) shocked the clarinet world in the early 70s with his x-ray film of what happens inside a clarinetist’s mouth while playing. (Video link...

The institution of live classical music concerts continues to flounder, and the water isn’t getting any calmer. Can you teach an old fish to swim upstream? But the origins...

The OSU Marching Band with the Columbus Symphony

The Ohio State University Marching Band, TBDBITL, with the Columbus Symphony, Saturday night, July 30, 2011, at Picnic with the Pops. As always an exciting evening! And so ends...

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Video- Clarinet Finger Love Fest in Brahms Schoenberg Giant Orchestration

Nutcracker Clarinet solos; demonstration with practice tips.

On words, music, and serendipity, too.

Long phrased beginning of Strauss Duett concertino

My Funny Valentine, Late night moods

Last solo clarinet line of Higdon Blue Cathedral

Rachmaninoff Vocalise – for Mom

While waiting to begin my practice I strayed…

Brett Sheehy bursts classical music’s cultural bubble

Is technology harming classical music? – latimes.com

X-Ray Video of Dancing Tongue in Clarinetist’s Mouth – Not what you expect.

Sandow and Midgette on audience decline for classical music

The OSU Marching Band with the Columbus Symphony

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Podcast interview with me

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