Image Credit: Kay Nielsen Since I just played Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, Opus 35 this weekend, I thought I’d share some tone samples from that piece. These examples are of two different players playing the main cadenza solo from the second…
The music from the “Pagliacci” aria “Vesti la giubba” was featured in a Kellogg’s cereal ad in 1969, with the lyrics “No more Rice Krispies we are out of Rice Krispies”. “Entertainment Weekly” touted it as one of the 10…
Several comments on my post “Practice Ideas” merit repeating. My old clarinet friend from Interlochen days, Diana Haskell, and now 2nd in the St. Louis Symphony asked- What shape do you think of when you inhale, and do you think…
Here’s a live performance, from November 2006. of Richard Strauss’ late work for Clarinet, Bassoon and string orchestra, Duett-Concertino. I was privileged to work with my colleague Betsy Sturdevant and the Columbus Symphony, Carlos Miguel Prieto, conducting. (If you want…
My new Twitter friend, Marion Harrington, is posting about a project to record some major French repertoire, after many years of not playing. In a recent blog post, the complex process of mentally and physically preparing for a recording is…
The second part of etude 2 is one of the most difficult ones in the book for fingers. I’m “living” with it awhile, because I’ve already learned it once, and I want to improve on what I did in those…